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[Illustration: ALTAR-PIECE, TEMPLE OF THE CROSS, PALENQUE.]




                            TRAVELS AMONGST
                           AMERICAN INDIANS
                       THEIR ANCIENT EARTHWORKS
                             AND TEMPLES;

                        INCLUDING A JOURNEY IN
                    GUATEMALA, MEXICO AND YUCATAN,
                            AND A VISIT TO
               THE RUINS OF PATINAMIT, UTATLAN, PALENQUE
                              AND UXMAL.

                                  BY
                     VICE-ADMIRAL LINDESAY BRINE,

 (_Member of Council of the Royal Geographical and Hakluyt Societies._)
  _Author of “The Taeping Rebellion in China; a Narrative of its Rise
                            and Progress.”_


                                LONDON
   