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APPENDIX. 
Izabal, and Clara are by no means neglected. The proper 
name of the capital city of Guatemala is Santiago (St. James); 
and if the ambitious projects dear to the late President Barrios 
should be accomplished, as seems not improbable, England will 
have to be satisfied with St. George, and leave u The Court of 
St. James” to the Central American kingdom. 
To the Anglo-Saxon such names as True Cross, Holy Cross, 
Thanks to God, City of Angels, Nativity, and Holy Saviour seem 
wholly inappropriate as names of places; but to the devout 
Spaniard they were evidently favorite appellations. Nor are 
they very different from Praise-God Barebones, Faith, Prudence, 
and the like, which we know were not uncommon appellatives 
among the Puritans. 
NO RUINS OF DWELLINGS. 
In all the remains of ancient cities or holy places hitherto 
discovered in Central America, there are temples or oratories, 
and so-called palaces, but not a sign of human habitations; even 
the palaces are apparently too small for comfortable habitation, 
and the temples would not admit more than four or five persons 
at the same time. Herrera says there u were so many and such 
stately Stone Buildings that it was amazing; and the greatest 
Wonder is, that, having no Use of any Metal, they were able to 
raise such Structures, which seem to have been Temples, for 
their Houses were always of Timber and thatched.” Always of 
less durable material than stone, the houses have disappeared, 
and we must not infer that there were no dwellers about the 
places where we find to-day only monuments of the dead or re¬ 
ligious edifices. At the present time there is many a village in 
Guatemala where the church is the only building of masonry, 
all the houses being of the most perishable materials, as palm 
stems and leaves, bark and mud. If the town of Livingston were 
destroyed to-day and not rebuilt, there would be nothing on the 
site after two years to show that men had ever lived there. 
It would certainly be interesting to learn why many of the 
temples have doors, passages, and even rooms that a man of 
average stature cannot stand erect in. 
