Note II-30 — Chapter II · ANTIQUITIES OF THE ISTHMUS, COSTA RICA, MOSQUITO COAST, AND NICARAGUA.

Squier's Nicaragua; Boyle's Ride Across a Continent. Mr E. G. Squier resided in Nicaragua as Chargé d'Affaires of the United States during the year 1849-50. On account of his position he was afforded facilities for research not enjoyed by other foreigners, and which his well-known antiquarian tastes and abilities prompted and enabled him to use to the best advantage during the limited time left from official duties. Besides the several editions of the work mentioned, Mr Squier's accounts or fragments thereof have been published in periodicals in different languages; while other authors have made up almost wholly from his writings their brief descriptions of Nicaraguan antiquities. See Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 341; Sivers, Mittelamerika, pp. 128-35; Tiedemann, in Heidelberger Yahrb., 1851, pp. 81, 91, 170; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, pp. 463, 484, 498, 544; Andree, in Westland, tom. ii., pp. 3, 251; Heine, Wanderbilder, p. 181; Holinski, La Californie, p. 252; Baldwin's Anc. Amer., p. 124. Frederick Boyle, F.R.G.S., visited the country in 1865-6, with the examination of antiquities as his main object. Both works are illustrated with plates and cuts; and both authors brought away interesting specimens which were deposited by the American in the Smithsonian Institution, and by the Englishman in the British Museum. 'J'avoue n'avoir rien rencontré d'important dans mes lectures, en ce qui touche les états de Costa Rica et de Nicaragua.' Dally, Races Indig., p. 12.