Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber’s Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of changes is found at the end of the text. Inconsistency in spelling and hyphenation has been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text. The use of accents on foreign words and the capitalization of titles in foreign languages is not consistent. This text maintains the original usage. Use of italics on titles of cited words is not consistent. This text maintains the original usage. The following less-common characters are used in this version of the book. If they do not display correctly, please try changing your font. † Dagger ‡ Double dagger Ɔ Capital open O ŏ Lower-case o with breve ē Lower-case e with macron œ oe ligature [Illustration: Plano de Yucatan 1848] THE MAYAS, THE SOURCES OF THEIR HISTORY. DR. LE PLONGEON IN YUCATAN, HIS ACCOUNT OF DISCOVERIES. BY STEPHEN SALISBURY, JR. FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, OF APRIL 26, 1876, AND APRIL 25, 1877. PRIVATELY PRINTED. WORCESTER: PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON. 1877. [Inscribed to Mip Sargent,] _WITH THE RESPECTS OF THE WRITER._ CONTENTS. THE MAYAS AND THE SOURCES OF THEIR HISTORY, _Page_ 3 DR. LE PLONGEON IN YUCATAN, “ 53 ILLUSTRATIONS. MAP OF YUCATAN, FRONTISPIECE. LOCALITY OF DISCOVERIES AT CHICHEN-ITZA, _Page_ 58 STATUE EXHUMED AT CHICHEN-ITZA, “ 62 RELICS FOUND WITH THE STATUE, “ 74 THE MAYAS AND THE SOURCES OF THEIR HISTORY. [Proceedings of American Antiquarian Society, April 26, 1876.]