The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . I H^c BAS-RELIEFS AT KABAH (FROM STEPHENS). J Mexican manuscripts. In this relief the conqueror spares thelife of the vanquished, bidding him depart in peace. It isobvious, nay, we affirm, that this is a representation of a battlebetween Yucatecs and Mexicans dating somewhere between 1460 390 The Ancient Cities of the New World. and 1470 ;* since we know that Mayapan was the only city whichimplored the aid of the Aztecs, and that after its destructionthe inhabitants obtai
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . I H^c BAS-RELIEFS AT KABAH (FROM STEPHENS). J Mexican manuscripts. In this relief the conqueror spares thelife of the vanquished, bidding him depart in peace. It isobvious, nay, we affirm, that this is a representation of a battlebetween Yucatecs and Mexicans dating somewhere between 1460 390 The Ancient Cities of the New World. and 1470 ;* since we know that Mayapan was the only city whichimplored the aid of the Aztecs, and that after its destructionthe inhabitants obtained permission to establish themselves inthe province of Maxcanu, east of Merida, where their descendantsare found to this very day. These repetitions were necessary toconvince a class of archaeologists who claim for these monumentsa hoary antiquity. * Compare tlie striking resemblance between the Aztec warrior in our Temala-catl drawing, chap. iii. p. 42, and tlie kneeling figure.
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