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Title: Vestiges of the Mayas
or, 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

Author: Augustus Le Plongeon

Release Date: December 25, 2009 [EBook #30752]

Language: English

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VESTIGES OF THE MAYAS,

OR,

_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, M. D.,

Member of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., of the
California Academy of Sciences, and several other Scientific Societies.
Author of various Essays and Scientific Works.

NEW YORK:
JOHN POLHEMUS, PRINTER AND STATIONER,
102 NASSAU STREET.

1881.

To

_MR. PIERRE LORILLARD._

Who deserves the thanks of the students of American Archaeology more than
you, for the interest manifested in the explorations of the ruined
monuments of Central America, handiwork of the races that inhabited this
continent in remote ages, and the