Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . monuments a figure is represented carrying in his hand one of the manikinsceptres, of which so many examples occur on the sculptures at Quirigua. RUINS NEAR YAXClH. RUINS NEAR YAXCHE. A few miles to the north of Ixkun the forest gives way to an open savanna countrystudded with innumerable low, timber-covered hills, and here, about two miles to of the little hamlet of Yaxche, on the thickly wooded banks of a streamlet whichruns to join the Kio San Juan, we found a ruine
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . monuments a figure is represented carrying in his hand one of the manikinsceptres, of which so many examples occur on the sculptures at Quirigua. RUINS NEAR YAXClH. RUINS NEAR YAXCHE. A few miles to the north of Ixkun the forest gives way to an open savanna countrystudded with innumerable low, timber-covered hills, and here, about two miles to of the little hamlet of Yaxche, on the thickly wooded banks of a streamlet whichruns to join the Kio San Juan, we found a ruined town of considerable size. As nosigns of sculptured stones could be discovered among tbe fcrandation-mounds, we didnot attempt to clear away the thick undergrowth, but turned our attention to twoconical hills of natural formation standing up conspicuously about eight hundredyards apart on either side of the stream. Both hills were overgrown with grass, andeach was crowned with a mound which we thought must contain the remains of abuilding. We set to work to dig into the mound on the summit of the southern hill,. and, as we expected, unearthed the remains of a small building facing north. Thewalls were in some parts perfect to the height of six feet, and they appear to havebeen built separately (as indicated by the shading in the Plan). The entrance-passageand interior of the chamber were lined with small well-wrought blocks of stone, but the material is so soft thatit could easily be cut with a knife. The floor had acovering of cement, which was in good condition, andthe outside of the walls appear to have had a thickcoating of the same material. A stone lintel and a fewslabs, which may have been used for roofing, and somefragments of rough pottery Avere met with in diggingout the debris. Along the back of the chamber wasa raised bench about two feet high, and in the face ofit was a niche about twenty inches by eighteen, whichwas much smoke-stained and had probably been usedf
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