Note V-71 — Chapter V · ANTIQUITIES OF YUCATAN. (continued 2)

Authorities on Chichen Itza. Landa, Relacion, pp. 340-7,—Landa describing the ruins from personal observation, having been bishop of Mérida for several years, and died in the country in 1579; Friederichsthal, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1841, tom. xcii., pp. 300, 302, 304-6,—this author having visited Chichen in 1840, directed thereto by the advice of Mr Stephens, who had heard rumors of the existence of extensive remains; Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 282-324,—whose visit was from March 11 to 29, 1842, and whose description, as usual, is much more complete than that of other explorers; Norman's Rambles in Yuc., pp. 104-28,—the corresponding survey having lasted from February 10 to 14, 1842; Charnay, Ruines Amér., pp. 339-46, phot. 26-34,—from an exploration in 1858. Thomas Lopez Medel is also mentioned in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcvii., pp. 38, 43, as having visited Chichen by authority of the Guatemalan government. Other authors who publish accounts of Chichen, made up from the works of the preceding actual explorers, are as follows: Armin, Das Heutige Mex., pp. 80-3; Baldwin's Anc. Amer., pp. 140-4; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 15; Frost's Great Cities, pp. 282-91; Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 186, 193; Willson's Amer. Hist., pp. 79-82; Davis' Antiq. Amer., p. 6; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 144; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., p. 179, cut; Democratic Review, vol. xi., pp. 534-6; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., p. 174; Schott, in Smithsonian Rept., 1871, pp. 423-4.