Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . 1545 the Spaniards moved towhat is now the town of Valladolid, about ten leagues distant from the ruins ofChichen. The first description of Chichen Itza is to be found in the notes of Diego de Landa,Bishop of Yucatan, which are supposed to have been written in the year 1566. It isas follows:— Chichen Itza is very well situated 10 leagues from Izamal and 11 from Valladolid,and the elders among the Indians say that they remember to have heard from theirancestors that in that pla
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . 1545 the Spaniards moved towhat is now the town of Valladolid, about ten leagues distant from the ruins ofChichen. The first description of Chichen Itza is to be found in the notes of Diego de Landa,Bishop of Yucatan, which are supposed to have been written in the year 1566. It isas follows:— Chichen Itza is very well situated 10 leagues from Izamal and 11 from Valladolid,and the elders among the Indians say that they remember to have heard from theirancestors that in that place there once reigned three Lords who were brothers andwho came to that land from the west. And they brought together on these sites agreat number of towns and people, and ruled them for some years with justice andin peace. They paid much reverence to their God and on this account they raised many andfine buildings, and of one in particular, the greatest of them all, I will here draw theplan, as I drew it when I was standing on it, so that it may be the better understood. CHECHEN ITZA. HfS r^j—--i iFiliillii. These Lords, they say, came over without any women, and they lived chastely,and all the time that they thus lived they were held in high esteem and obeyed by , as time went on, one of them disappeared, and doubtless he must have died,although the Indians assert that he left the country in the direction of Bacalar. The absence of this Lord, however it may have come to pass, caused such a changein those who ruled the State that soon they split into factions, so wanton and licentious intheir ways, that the people came so greatly to loathe them that they killed them, laidthe Town waste and themselves dispersed, abandoning the buildings and this beautifulsite which is only ten leagues from the sea, and has much fertile land around it. Theplan of the principal building is the following :— This building has four stairways which look to the four quarters of
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