[II-29] Bard's (E. G. Squier) Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore, pp. 216-17, 254, 258-60. The 'King of the Mosquitos' somewhat severely criticised the work, in which, by the way, His Royal Highness is not very reverently spoken of, as 'a pack of lies, especially when it was notorious that the author had never visited the Mosquito Coast.' Pim and Seemann's Dottings, p. 271. 'Le désert qui s'étend le long de la côte de la mer des Antilles, depuis le golfe Dulce jusqu'à l'isthme de Darien, n'a pas offert jusqu'à présent de vestiges indiquant que le peuple auquel on doit les monuments de Palenquè, de Quiragua, de Copan, ait émigré au sud de l'isthme.' Friederichsthal, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1841, tom. xcii., p. 301.
[II-30] Squier's Nicaragua; Boyle's Ride Across a Continent. Mr E. G. Squier resided in Nicaragua as Chargé d'Affaires of the United States during the year 1849-50. On account of his position he was afforded facilities for research not enjoyed by other foreigners, and which his well-known antiquarian tastes and abilities prompted and enabled him to use to the best advantage during the limited time left from official duties. Besides the several editions of the work mentioned, Mr Squier's accounts or fragments thereof have been published in periodicals in different languages; while other authors have made up almost wholly from his writings their brief descriptions of Nicaraguan antiquities. See Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 341; Sivers, Mittelamerika, pp. 128-35; Tiedemann, in Heidelberger Yahrb., 1851, pp. 81, 91, 170; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, pp. 463, 484, 498, 544; Andree, in Westland, tom. ii., pp. 3, 251; Heine, Wanderbilder, p. 181; Holinski, La Californie, p. 252; Baldwin's Anc. Amer., p. 124. Frederick Boyle, F.R.G.S., visited the country in 1865-6, with the examination of antiquities as his main object. Both works are illustrated with plates and cuts; and both authors brought away interesting specimens which were deposited by the American in the Smithsonian Institution, and by the Englishman in the British Museum. 'J'avoue n'avoir rien rencontré d'important dans mes lectures, en ce qui touche les états de Costa Rica et de Nicaragua.' Dally, Races Indig., p. 12.
[II-31] 'Nicht ... von abgesonderten Steinen umgeben, sondern fanden sich, in einer Tiefe von drei Fuss, unregelmässig über die Ebene zerstreut.' Friederichsthal, in Sivers, Mittelamerika, p. 128; 'Les îles du lac, notamment Ométépé semblent avoir servi de sépultures à la population des villes environnantes, ... car on y rencontre de vastes nécropoles ou villes des morts, ressemblant par leur caractère à celles des anciens Mexicains.' Id. in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1841, tom. xcii., p. 297; in Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour., vol. xi., p. 100; Woeniger, in Squier's Nicaragua, pp. 509-10; Boyle's Ride, vol. ii., p. 86.
[II-32] Plan showing their relative position, in Squier's Nicaragua, p. 477.
[II-33] 'On y trouve (sur les îles du lac) encore un grand nombre de débris de constructions antiques.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1855, tom. cxlvii., p. 135.
[II-34] Boyle's Ride, vol. ii., p. 42.
[II-35] Squier's Nicaragua, pp. 439-41.
[II-36] Boyle's Ride, vol. ii., pp. 10-11.
[II-37] Id., vol. ii., pp. 161-2; Squier's Nicaragua, p. 396.
[II-38] 'Ils montrent avec effroi les débris de la cité maudite, encore visibles sous la surface des eaux.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1855, tom. cxlvii., p. 149.