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The Ancient Cities of the New World

Note 104 — Chapter XV

Helen S. (Helen Stevens) Conant translation

From data obtained from Pablo Moreno, and a letter of the Jesuit Don Domingo, dated 1805, we can give the following list of objects destroyed by Landa:

5,000 idols of various form and dimensions;

13 huge stones, which were used as altars;

22 smaller, of various shapes;

27 manuscripts on deer skins;

197 of all shapes and sizes.

To this should be added the auto-da-fé at Mani, in which numerous manuscripts were consumed. Cogolludo, tome I. appendix to book iv. p. 479. Campeche, 1842.

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