[V-62] Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., p. 321; Baril, Mexique, p. 129; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 144. 'Autour de cette grande ville (Uxmal), dans un rayon de plusieurs lieues, l'œil admirait les cités puissantes de Nohcacab, de Chetulul, de Kabah, de Tanchi, de Bokal et plus tard de Nohpat, dont les nobles omules se découpaient dans l'azur foncé du ciel, comme autant de fleurons dans la couronne d'Uxmal.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 21.
[V-63] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 30-8, 41-6, 124-6.
[V-64] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 16-28, with two plates in addition to the cuts I have given. Armin, Das Heutige Mex., pp. 79-80, with two cuts, from Stephens. 'The summits of the neighboring hills are capped with gray broken walls for many miles around.' Norman's Rambles in Yuc., pp. 150-3, with view of front, copied in Democratic Review, vol. xi., pp. 536-7; Frost's Pict. Hist. Mex., pp. 78-9; and Id., Great Cities, pp. 291-5.
[V-65] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 40-65, with plates. The cut given in the text is also given by Baldwin, Anc. Amer., as a frontispiece. Willson's Amer. Hist., p. 86.
[V-66] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 72-8, with two plates, and cut of painting. Willson's Amer. Hist., pp. 86-7.
[V-67] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 83-4, 87-94.
[V-68] Id., vol. ii., pp. 235-43.
[V-69] Un Curioso, in Registro Yuc., tom. i., pp. 207-8, 351.
[V-70] Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 249, 258-61, 130-5, with four plates illustrating the ruins of Chunhuhu. At Mani 'a pillory of a conical shape, built of stones, and to the southward rises a very ancient palace.' Soza, in Rio's Description, p. 7. 'On voit encore près de Mani les restes d'un édifice construit sur une colline. On appelle cette ruine le temple de las monjas del fuego.' Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., p. 48.
[V-71] Authorities on Chichen Itza. Landa, Relacion, pp. 340-7,—Landa describing the ruins from personal observation, having been bishop of Mérida for several years, and died in the country in 1579; Friederichsthal, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1841, tom. xcii., pp. 300, 302, 304-6,—this author having visited Chichen in 1840, directed thereto by the advice of Mr Stephens, who had heard rumors of the existence of extensive remains; Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 282-324,—whose visit was from March 11 to 29, 1842, and whose description, as usual, is much more complete than that of other explorers; Norman's Rambles in Yuc., pp. 104-28,—the corresponding survey having lasted from February 10 to 14, 1842; Charnay, Ruines Amér., pp. 339-46, phot. 26-34,—from an exploration in 1858. Thomas Lopez Medel is also mentioned in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcvii., pp. 38, 43, as having visited Chichen by authority of the Guatemalan government. Other authors who publish accounts of Chichen, made up from the works of the preceding actual explorers, are as follows: Armin, Das Heutige Mex., pp. 80-3; Baldwin's Anc. Amer., pp. 140-4; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 15; Frost's Great Cities, pp. 282-91; Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 186, 193; Willson's Amer. Hist., pp. 79-82; Davis' Antiq. Amer., p. 6; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 144; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., p. 179, cut; Democratic Review, vol. xi., pp. 534-6; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., p. 174; Schott, in Smithsonian Rept., 1871, pp. 423-4.