Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

Stephens work is a highly detailed description of his explorations of Yucatan and the Mayan ruins he discovered there. It also describes some of the lifestyle, customs, and especially the religious rituals of the Indian peoples he encountered on his expedition. The work is illustrated with detailed drawings and schematic diagrams of the layout of the ruins he and his party discovered. Along with Stephens on his expedition were an ornithologist, Dr. Cabot, and a fellow explorer who had accompanied him on previous explorations, Mr. Catherwood, who made the sketches which have been made into etchings for reproduction in the current edition.

Stephens presumes that the reader is familiar with his previous work on his travels in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, and often skims over details of people and places described in this prior work. The first volume begins with a description of a stormy sea voyage taking the explorers to their point of departure for their expedition - the port of Sisal in north-western Yucatan (1:1-3). Stephens describes their stay at Merida, where they arrived during the festival season, and descri

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