[103] Landa, “Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan,” sec. 2.
[104] From data obtained from Pablo Moreno, and a letter of the Jesuit Don Domingo, dated 1805, we can give the following list of objects destroyed by Landa:
| 5,000 | idols of various form and dimensions; |
| 13 | huge stones, which were used as altars; |
| 22 | smaller, of various shapes; |
| 27 | manuscripts on deer skins; |
| 197 | of all shapes and sizes. |
To this should be added the auto-da-fé at Mani, in which numerous manuscripts were consumed. Cogolludo, tome I. appendix to book iv. p. 479. Campeche, 1842.
[105] See Landa, “Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan,” sec. 42, p. 333 and following.
[106] Lorenzo Bienvenida, in a letter to the King of Spain (1548), says that the monuments were deserted and the pyramids covered with large trees, and that the natives of the place lived in straw huts. The city, therefore, had been destroyed a few years before, as Mayapan had been, of which no trace was visible, whereas the monuments at T-hoo were entire, but its history has been lost.
[107] The types we give are pure Indian and not Meztizas.
[108] “The tribes who from Aztlan established themselves in Yucatan and Guatemala, had reached a certain degree of civilisation.”—Humbolt.
[109] Bernal Diaz, “Hist. de la Conquista de la Nueva España,” tome I. chap. iv.
[110] Landa, “Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan,” sec. xx.