oss of life; and by break of day they
were on a mountainous ridge many leagues from Iximaya. In about fourteen
days, they reached Ocosingo, after great suffering. Here Velasquez
reluctantly parted with most of his faithful Indians, and here also died
Vaalpeor, from the unaccustomed toil and deprivations of the journey.
Velasquez, with the two Aztec children, did not reach San Salvador until
the middle of February, when they became objects of the highest
interest to the most intellectual classes of that city. As the greatest
ethnological curiosities in living form, that ever appeared among
civilised men, he was advised to send them to Europe for exhibition.

With this view they were taken to Grenada where they remained the
objects of much local curiosity, until it was deemed proper and
advisable first to exhibit them to the people of the United States. The
parties whom Senor Velasquez first appointed as their temporary
guardians brought them to New York via Jamaica, and they will no doubt
attract and reward universal attention. They are supposed to be eight
and ten years of age, and both are lively, playful and affectionate. But
it is as specimens of an _absolutely unique_ and nearly extinct race of
mankind that they claim the attention of Physiologists and all men of
science.

Transcriber's Note

The following errors were corrected.

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4 Vaalpeor, in changed to Vaalpeor, an
4 Diocess changed to Diocese
5 scirra changed to sierra
6 attemped changed to attempted
6 Gautamala changed to Guatimala
6 seirra changed to sierra
6 rasing changed to raising
7 seirra changed to sierra
7 Balize changed to Belize
8 way changed to way.
8 Hammand changed to Hammond
8 attestors changed to attesters
9 proceded changed to proceeded
9 regreted changed to regretted
9 repecting changed to respecting
9 experince changed to experience
10 idolitrous changed to idolatrous
10 invaluble changed to invaluable
11 joval changed to jovial
11 mentined changed to mentioned
13 realitily changed to reality
13 rediculous changed to ridiculous
14 guilded changed to gilded
14 pinacle changed to pinnacle
15 mountians changed to mountains
15 Chiapas. changed to Chiapas."
16 limbstone changed to limestone
16 parapetted changed to parapeted
16 Aarchbishop changed to Archbishop
17 amunition changed to ammunition
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