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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



Can, executed with all the formalities required in 

 the case of Indians (the original of which appears 

 among the other title papers), and prays a confirma- 

 tion of his former grant, and to be put in real and 

 corporeal possession. The instrument confirms the 

 former grant, and prescribes the formal mode of ob- 

 taining possession. 



Under the deed of confirmation appears the deed 

 of livery of seisin, beginning, " In the place called 

 the edifices of Uxmal and its lands, the third day 

 of the month of January, 1688," &c., &c., and con- 

 cli^ding with these words : " In virtue of the power 

 and authority which by the same title is given to 

 me by the said governor, complying with its terms, 

 I took by the hand the said Lorenzo de Evia, and 

 he walked with me all over Uxmal and its buildings, 

 opened and shut some doors that had several rooms, 

 cut within the space some trees, picked up fallen 

 stones and threw them down, drew water from one 

 of the aguadas of the said place of Uxmal, and per- 

 formed other acts of possession." 



The reader will perceive that we have here two 

 distinct, independent witnesses testifying that, one 

 hundred and forty years after the foundation of 

 Merida, the buildings of Uxmal were regarded with 

 reverence by the Indians ; that they formed the nu- 

 cleus of a dispersed and scattered population, and 

 were resorted to for the observance of religious rites 

 at a distance from the eyes of the Spaniards. Co- 

 golludo saw in the House of the Dwarf the " marks 



