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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 (14803357523)
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Title: 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
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906
Subjects: Indians -- Antiquities Guatemala -- Antiquities Mexico -- Antiquities North America -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University
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about sixteen hundred miles. Upon reaching the latitude and longitude wherehe expected to see land, the admiral conferred withhis captains, but as nothing had been observed itwas thought that the ships must have passed theisland. At sunset, the captain of the Pinta hailedthe admiral and reported that land was in sightto the south-west. The course of the ships wasaccordingly altered towards that direction. On thenext day it was found that what had been seenwas cloudland. The ships resumed their course andproceeded until the landfall was made upon theisland of Guanahani. The belief in the existence of the legendary islandwas, however, not then dispelled and it is remarkable,as a proof of the opinions of geographers, that in theimportant map of the world by Kuysch, published in1508, in which were placed the latest discoveries inthe west; Antilia still retained its position.* *Antilia appears as a large island in the Atlantic in therare maps of Andreas Bianco (1436) and Bartolomeo Pareto
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TRADE-WINDS. 419 In the early part of the sixteenth century, severalexpeditionary fleets were fitted out and sailedacross the seas towards the New World. Manyislands were seen, but Antilia was not found. Thuswhen it became known that Yucatan had beendiscovered and that a cross placed within a stonetemjDle was worshipped by the Indians, and thatother crosses had been seen placed over graves, itwas surmised that the bishops must have finallyreached that distant land. Such an event may be thought to be improbable,but as, in consequence of the trade-winds, it is notimjDOssible, it is expedient to consider in whatmanner it might have happened. It has to beassumed that the legend, so far as it relates toChristian fugitives escaping from the tyranny ofMahometan conquerors, may be considered as Ijeingwithin the limits of reasonable historical inquiry. (1454). On Martin Behaims globe (1492) it is placed abouteighteen hundred miles west of the Canaries. In the earliestmaps published after the r