The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . take up our quarters, for we are in Tula,once the brilliant capital of the Toltecs, but now reduced to asmall straggling town numbering some 1,500 souls. The Toltecs, as was stated before, were one of the Nahuantribes, which from the seventh to the fourteenth century spreadover Mexico and Central America. Their existence has beendenied by various modern historians, although all Americanwriters agree that the numerous bands which followed them inthe country received their civilisa
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . take up our quarters, for we are in Tula,once the brilliant capital of the Toltecs, but now reduced to asmall straggling town numbering some 1,500 souls. The Toltecs, as was stated before, were one of the Nahuantribes, which from the seventh to the fourteenth century spreadover Mexico and Central America. Their existence has beendenied by various modern historians, although all Americanwriters agree that the numerous bands which followed them inthe country received their civilisation from them. It must beadmitted, however, that our knowledge rests chiefly on tradi-tionary legends full of anachronisms, transmitted to us by thenations that came after them ; but it will be our care to fill upthe enormous discrepancies to be met with at almost every page,by the monuments it has been our good fortune to bring tolight. Two writers, Ixtlilxochitl and Mariano Veytia, havewritten about this people: the hrst in his Historia Chichemecaand Relaciones, the second in his Historia Antigua de Tula. n. PULQUE. Mejico ; the latter being more explicit, it is from him that wewill chiefly borrow, w^ithout neglecting, however, other made use of the same documents, drew from the same /S The Ancient Cities of the New World. sources, the traditionary legends of their country; and Veytia,besides his own, had access to Botturinis valuable collection ofMexican manuscripts, so that he was well acquainted withAmerican antiquities. Ixtlilxochitl, on the other hand, as mightbe expected, in writing the history of his ancestors, whoselanguage he understood and whose hieroglyphs he could decipher,is inspired by patriotic zeal; and it will be found that thesehistorians have just claims to our admiration for the compass oftheir inquiries, and the sagacity with which they conducted them. A third writer, Ramirez, by far the most illustrious of thosewho have trea
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