Note IV-32 — Chapter IV · ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA AND BELIZE.

Stephens' Cent. Amer., vol. ii., pp. 171, 182-8. Mr Stephens gives, besides the engravings I have copied, and one of the other terra-cotta heads mentioned, a view of El Sacrificatorio, a ground plan showing the relative positions of the plateau, the barranca, and the projecting fortress, together with a view of El Resguardo and the other ruins in the distance. I do not reproduce them because they show no details not included in the description, which, moreover, is easily comprehended without the aid of cuts. A thorough exploration of Utatlan was made by Don Miguel Rivera y Maestre, a commissioner sent for the purpose by the Guatemalan government in 1834. His MS. report to the state authorities was seen by Mr Stephens and is described as being very full and accurate, but not containing any details outside of Stephens' account. He does not state that his plans and views were obtained from Rivera y Maestre. Juarros, Hist. Guat., pp. 86-8, 487, follows Fuentes, who described the city chiefly from historical accounts of its original condition, although it seems that he also visited the ruins. Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. lii., speaks of Utatlan's 'maravillosos edificios de cal y canto, de los cuales yo vide muchos.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., pp. 493, 120, tom. i., p. 124, speaks of Rivera y Maestre's plans in Stephens' work as incorrect, but rejoices in the prospect that M. César Daly will publish correct drawings. 'Un des palais des rois de Quiché a 728 pas géométriques de longueur et 376 de largeur.' Humboldt, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1827, tom. xxxv., p. 329. 'En Utlatan habia muchos y muy grandes cues ó templos de sus Idolos, de maravillosos edificios, y yo vi algunos aunque muy arruinados.' Zurita, in Palacio, Carta, pp. 123-4. See also accounts of these ruins made up from Stephens and Juarros, in Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 286, and Reichardt, Cent. Amer., p. 72; also mention in Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 470; Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., pp. 266, 274; Galindo, in Antiq. Mex., tom. i., div. ii., pp. 73-8; Revue Amér., 1826, tom. i., pp. 353-5; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, p. 462.