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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Ruins of Nohpat. — A lofty Mound. — Grand View. — Sculptured 

 Human Figure. — Terraces. — Huge sculptured Figure. — Other 

 Figures. — Skull and Cross-bones. — Situation of Ruins. — Jour- 

 ney to Kabah.— Thatched Huts. — Arrival at the Ruins. — Return 

 to the Village. — Astonishment of the Indians. — Valuable Ser- 

 vant. — Festival of Corpus Alma. — A plurality of Saints. — How 

 to put a Saint under Patronage. — A Procession. — Fireworks. — 

 A Ball. — Excess of Female Population. — A Dance. 



The next day we set out for another ruined city. 

 It lay on the road to Uxmal, and was the same 

 which I had visited on my first return from Ticul, 

 known by the name of Nohpat. At the distance of 

 a league we turned off from the main road to the 

 left, and, following a narrow milpa path, in fifteen 

 minutes reached the field of ruins. One mound 



rose high above the rest, holding aloft a ruined 

 building, as shown in the preceding engraving. At 



