. Notes on Central America : particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador : their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc., etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway . H. § w Chap. VIII.] department of comatagua. 123 are only perpetuations of those which they possessedbefore the conquest. In some of them the predomi-nating portion of the population is still unmixed In-dian. Lamani,Tainbla,Yarumela, Ajuterique, Lajami-ni, and Cururu, are all Indian names. There are alsomany Indian towns which have been entirely abandon-ed as the population of
. Notes on Central America : particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador : their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc., etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway . H. § w Chap. VIII.] department of comatagua. 123 are only perpetuations of those which they possessedbefore the conquest. In some of them the predomi-nating portion of the population is still unmixed In-dian. Lamani,Tainbla,Yarumela, Ajuterique, Lajami-ni, and Cururu, are all Indian names. There are alsomany Indian towns which have been entirely abandon-ed as the population of the country has decreased, andof which the traces are now scarcely visible. The principal ruins, strictly aboriginal and of ancientarcliitecture, are in the vicinity of Yarumela, Lajamini,and near the ruised town of Cururu. They consist oflarge pyramidal, terraced structures, often faced withstones, conical mounds of earth, and walls of these, and in their vicinit}^, are found carvings instone, and painted vases of great beauty. The 2^1ii^cipal monuments, however, retaining dis-tinctly their primitive forms, can hardly be said to bein the plain of Comayagua. They are found in the lat-eral valleys, or on t
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