The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . Sacrificial Sacrificial Stone. (Side view.) White Womany 135 jumped onto the keys of the is modern enough to be comfort-able. You will find nothing very ancientin the town; in fact, there are very fewrelics of the Aztec even in the capital. Thecalendar is in the wall of the cathedral(since removed to the museum), and in onecourt in the palace are to be found theremainder. Amongst the latter the famousSacrificial Stone, from the Teocalli of thecapital, the same upon which, amongstthousands of natives, many of the men ofthe conque
The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . Sacrificial Sacrificial Stone. (Side view.) White Womany 135 jumped onto the keys of the is modern enough to be comfort-able. You will find nothing very ancientin the town; in fact, there are very fewrelics of the Aztec even in the capital. Thecalendar is in the wall of the cathedral(since removed to the museum), and in onecourt in the palace are to be found theremainder. Amongst the latter the famousSacrificial Stone, from the Teocalli of thecapital, the same upon which, amongstthousands of natives, many of the men ofthe conquest were offered up. It is sometwenty feet in diameter and four feet thick,with a basin in its center to hold the is entirely covered with Aztec carvings,and is of a marble hard as flint, and mottledgreen and black. It is really a work ofbeauty. Around about stand numerousgods and other images, all in stone. Pass-ing upward into the galleries, the first 136 The Kingdom of the thing one sees is an immense painting ofMaximilian, thrown on its side in a
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