. Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan . rate it from thewall with the crowbar, and pry it out. I was enga-ged in this work two entire days, and on the sec-ond the Indians wanted to abandon it. They haddug down nearly to the bottom, and one man in thehole refused to work any longer. To keep themtogether and not lose another day, I was obliged tolabour myself; and late in the afternoon we got outthe stones, with poles for levers, lifted them over themound, and set them up against the back wall. The plates opposite represent these two jambs asthey stood facing each other
. Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan . rate it from thewall with the crowbar, and pry it out. I was enga-ged in this work two entire days, and on the sec-ond the Indians wanted to abandon it. They haddug down nearly to the bottom, and one man in thehole refused to work any longer. To keep themtogether and not lose another day, I was obliged tolabour myself; and late in the afternoon we got outthe stones, with poles for levers, lifted them over themound, and set them up against the back wall. The plates opposite represent these two jambs asthey stood facing each other in the doorway. Eachconsists of two separate stones, as indicated in theengravings. In each the upper stone is one footfive inches high, and the lower one four feet sixinches, and both are two feet three inches subject consists of two figures, one standing,and the other kneeling before him. Both have un-natural and grotesque faces, probably containingsome symbolical meaning. The headdress is a loftyplume of feathers, falling to the heels of the stand-. I I itft!J I .C ti fiCS- K , cm jcurib of Doorway 42>
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