Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America
Subtitle: resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country, described by John L. Stevens, esq., and other travellers
By: translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez, of San Salvador
Publisher: Printed by J.W. Bell
Published: 1850
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Antiquities
Notes: Title page within ornamental border.

An apocryphal production.

"Iximaya" is claimed to be the traditional Indian city referred to by John L. Stephens' "Incidents and travel in Central America ..." New York, 1841, v. 2, p. 195-197.

Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.
Table of contents: title: "Profile illustrations from Central American ruins, of ancient races still existing in Iximaya": p. [3]-4; title: "Memoir of a recent eventful expedition in Central America [purporting to be an abridgment with translated extracts of the journal kept by Velasquez, who accompanied Huertis and Hammond, the promoters of the expedition]": p. [5]-35.