Vestiges of the Mayas

Vestiges of the Mayas offers "Facts tending to prove that Communications and Intimate Relations must have existed, in very remote times, between the inhabitants of MAYAB AND THOSE OF ASIA AND AFRICA," by "AUGUSTUS Le PLONGEON." The text says "Many strange stories are told by the aborigines concerning the properties possessed by the water in certain senotes" and that in one "you are warned to approach the water walking backward, and to breathe very softly." Some small sheets of water, called aguadas, "are fed by the underground current," and "There are three or four near the ruins of the ancient city of Mayapan."

The text says "mene or mane , numbered , would seem to correspond to the Maya verbs, MAN , to buy, to purchase, hence to number." A picture in the text has "an ape" in a tree whose hand is "open and outstretched, both in a warning and threatening position." A picture is said to "forcibly" recall "the myth of the garden of Eden."