Note 1053 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Field, no. 231; Sabin, xvii. p. 292. The report of Rio was brief, and as we would judge now, superficial. Dupaix treats him disparagingly. The appended essay by Cabrera, an Italian, is said to have been largely filched from Ramon’s paper, which had been confidentially placed in his hands (Short, 207). A Spanish text of Cabrera is in the Museo Nacional. Cf. Brasseur (Bib. Mex.-Guat.), p. 30; Pinart, no. 186. It is a question if the plates, which constituted the most interesting part of the English book, be Rio’s after all; for though they profess to be engraved after his drawings, they are suspiciously like those made by Castañeda, twenty years after Rio’s visit (Bancroft, iv. 290). David B. Warden translated Rio’s report in the Recueil de voyages et de Mémoires, par la Soc. de in Géog. de Paris. (vol. ii.), and gave some of the plates. (Cf. Warden’s Recherches sur les antiquités de l’Amérique Septentrionale, Paris, 1827, in Mém. de la Soc. de Géog.) There is a German version, Beschreibung einer alten Stadt (Berlin, 1832), by J. H. von Minutoli, which is provided with an introductory essay.