We should need many months of careful study in Java, the Malay Peninsula, Ceylon and India. If investigations there proved satisfactory, the next step would be to follow the route we have suggested as that taken by the migrators in a vessel as similar as possible to those it may be presumed they employed. Along the route a more minute study of the archæological remains on the islands of the Caroline and Marshall groups than has yet been undertaken could be made. Thence the voyage would be continued to the American mainland, where a thorough investigation of the country between the coast and Copan would probably yield valuable data. But such an expedition would require an outlay of thousands of pounds and would occupy two or three years, much of which would have to be spent under such hardships as only enthusiasts could contemplate. C. A. F. J. T. F. LONDON, 1908. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF MEXICO 1 CHAPTER II MEXICO CITY AND THE MEXICANS 23 CHAPTER III YUCATAN AND HER HISTORY 45 CHAPTER IV FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF YUCATAN 57 CHAPTER V A YUCATECAN BREAKFAST, AND OTHER "SIGHTS" 71 CHAPTER VI AMID THE PALACES OF THE ITZAS 82 CHAPTER VII VALLADOLID AND AFTER 104 CHAPTER VIII IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CORTES 127 CHAPTER IX EL MECO TO PUERTO MORELOS 143 CHAPTER X IN SEARCH OF THE MAYAN MECCA 164 CHAPTER XI ON THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS 185 CHAPTER XII COPAN AND QUIRIGUA 204 CHAPTER XIII PALENQUE, MENCHÉ, AND ON THE USUMACINTA 214 CHAPTER XIV THE ANCIENT MAYANS 226 CHAPTER XV WHO WERE THE MAYANS? 242 CHAPTER XVI WHO WERE AMERICA'S FIRST ARCHITECTS? 257 CHAPTER XVII THE AGE OF THE RUINS 283 CHAPTER XVIII HIEROGLYPHICS AND PAINTINGS 298 CHAPTER XIX SLAVERY ON THE HACIENDAS 321 CHAPTER XX YUCATAN AS IT IS TO-DAY AND THE YUCATECANS 337