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Transcriber's Note

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text.

Oe ligatures have been expanded.

MEMOIR OF AN EVENTFUL EXPEDITION IN CENTRAL AMERICA;

In an unexplored region; and the possession of two

REMARKABLE AZTEC CHILDREN,

Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Caste, of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country,

DESCRIBED BY

JOHN L. STEVENS, ESQ., AND OTHER TRAVELLERS.

NEW YORK: E. F. Applegate, Printer, 111 Nassau Street. 1850.

While writing his "Narrative" after his return to San Salvador, in the spring of the present year, Senor Velasquez was favored, by an American gentleman of that city, with a copy of "Layard's Nineveh," and was forcibly struck with the close characteristic resemblance of the faces in many of its engravings to those of the inhabitants in general, as a peculiar family of mankind, both of Iximaya and its surrounding region. The following are sketches, of two of the male faces to which he refers:

And the following profile, from the same work, is pronounced by Velasquez to be equally characteristic of the female faces of that region, making due allowance for the superb head dresses of tropical plumage, with which he describes the latter as being adorned, instead of the male galea, or close cap, retained in the engraving.

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