604 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
Squier describes Colonel Galindo as an intelligent Inshman (1855, p. 52), 
and gives the following biographical sketch and a bibliography of five titles (ibid., 
p. 390). Unfortunately it has been impossible to ascertain his real name from any of 
the several sources mentioned. 
“Galindo, John, an Irishman, who entered the service of the old Republic of Central 
America about the year 1827, received the rank of colonel in the army, was governor of the 
Department of Peten in Guatemala, subsequently named representative of the republic 
to the court of St. James, but was refused recognition on the ground of being a British sub- 
ject, and was finally killed in an Indian town in Honduras. He was far from being a close 
observer, nor was he a man of large information. He nevertheless was industrious, and 
gave the world many interesting facts, coupled with crude speculations, on the states of 
Central America and the country in general. After Juarros, he was, I believe, the first to 
direct public attention to the ruins of Copan.” 
