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which are now gone, especially the Sacrificatorio, which 
was a quadrilateral pyramid, with a base of sixty-six 
feet on the side, and a height, in that ruined condition, of 
thirty-three feet. One side of this awful relic of human 
misery was plain, though bearing traces of painted figures 
of animals; but the other three sides were supplied with 
steps in the middle, as may be seen in the illustration, 
taken from Catherwood’s sketch. These steps were only 
Quiche Altar of Tohil (Sacrificatorio). 
eight inches wide on the tread, while the risers were 
seventeen inches, — a proportion that must have made 
the descent very awkward for the priests if they were 
as corpulent as the more modern monks. 
AYe met on our return a marimba , carried by two men, 
while the three players followed, beating out clear and 
agreeable notes. A frame between seven and eight feet 
long and twenty-nine inches high, supports on cords 
thirty strips of hard wood, beneath each of which is 
