Excerpt from Illustrated Memoir of an Eventful Expedition Into Central America: Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; And the Possession of Two Remarkable Aztec Children Maximo (the Boy), And Bartola (the Girl) The accompanying engravings, sketched from the ruins of Central America bear both in features and in position of the head, a resemblance all will readily detect to the Aztec children, found in the same country, and now being exhibited and who according to succeeding pages, belong to an ancient sacerdotal caste. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.