An abridged version of Stephens/Catherwood's "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan" (1841), and "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" (1843). Stephens painted the Maya ruins with words; Catherwood with ink. Many of their assumptions proved later to be incorrect—for example, the buildings at Chichén Itzá actually were astronomically aligned: Stephens wrote that they were "off-Cardinal" points, missing the advanced science used by the Maya. Corrections to the text are offset in boxes in italics. 65 pp. Not indexed.