Note 999 — Chapter III
Reading edition
John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Lond. and N. Y. 1841,—various later eds., that of London, 1854, being “revised from the latest Amer. ed., with additions by Frederick Catherwood.” Stephens started on this expedition in 1839, and he was armed with credentials from President Van Buren. He travelled 3000 miles, and visited eight ruined cities, as shown by his route given on the map in vol. i. Cf. references in Allibone, ii. p. 2240; Poole’s Index, p. 212; his Incidents of Travel in Yucatan will be mentioned later.