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CHAPTER XI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

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The next three or four days I passed in receiving and paying visits, and in making myself acquainted with the condition of the country. Among the most interesting visiters was the venerable provesor, since the banishment of the archbishop the head of the church, who, by a late bull of the pope, had been appointed bishop; but, owing to the troubled times, had not yet been ordained. A friend in Baltimore had procured for me a letter from the archbishop in that city, to whom I here acknowledge my obligations, recommending me to all his brother ecclesiastics in Central America. The venerable provesor received this letter as from a brother in the Church, and upon the strength of it, afterward, when I set out for Palenque, gave me a letter of recommendation to all the curas under his charge. During the day my time passed agreeably enough; but the evenings, in which I was obliged to keep within doors, were long and lonely. My house was so near the plaza that I could hear the sentinels' challenge, and from time to time the report of a musket. These reports, in the stillness of night, were always startling. For some time I did not know the cause; but at length learned that cows and mules straggled about the city, which, heard moving at a distance and not answering the challenge, were fired upon without ceremony.

There was but one paper in Guatimala, and that a weekly, and a mere chronicler of decrees and political movements. City news passed by word of mouth. Every morning everybody asked his neighbour what was the news.

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Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1841

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  • CHAPTER XI
  • John Lloyd Stephens
  • Book: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
  • Online publication: 05 August 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511699535.012
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  • Book: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
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  • CHAPTER XI
  • John Lloyd Stephens
  • Book: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
  • Online publication: 05 August 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511699535.012
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