RESULTING IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE IDOLATROUS CITY OF IXIMAYA, In an unexplored region; and the possession of two REMARKABLE AZTEC CHILDREN, Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country, DESCRIBED BY JOHN L. STEVENS, ESQ., AND OTHER TRAVELLERS. Translated from the Spanish of PEDRO VELASQUEZ, of SAN SALVADOR. NEW YORK: E. F. Applegate, Printer, 111 Nassau Street. 1850....

In the second volume of his travels in Central America—than which no work ever published in this country, has created and maintained a higher degree of interest, both at home and abroad—Mr. Stevens speaks with enthusiasm of the conversations he had held with an intelligent and hospitable Padre, or Catholic priest, of Santa Cruz del Quiche, formerly of the village of Chajul; and of the exciting information he had received from him, concerning immense and marvellous antiquities in the surrounding