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Dias met with on the coast, containing hideous faces 

 of demons. Probably, broken and half buried as 

 they lie, they were once objects of adoration and 

 worship, and now exist as mute and melancholy 

 memorials of ancient paganism. 



At a short distance from the base of the mound 

 was an opening in the earth, forming another of 

 those extraordinary caves before presented to the 

 reader. The cura, the major domo, and the In- 

 dians called it a senote, and said that it had sup- 

 plied the inhabitants of the old city with water. 

 The entrance was by a broken, yawning mouth, 

 steep, and requiring some care in the descent. At 

 the first resting-place, the mouth opened into an ex- 



