Palenque: The Walker-Caddy Expedition to the Ancient Maya City, 1839-1840 (The American Exploration and Travel Series, Volume 52)

xvi, 213 pp. "In November, 1839, Patrick Walker, secretary to the superintendent of the Settlement of British Honduras, and John Herbert Caddy, a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and a talented artist, set out from Belize on an expedition to the ancient Maya ceremonial center of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. Caddy's diary of the trip to Palenque and the return to Belize via Merida, Walker's report, newspaper accounts, and the official correspondence covering the expedition form the nucleus of this book. Also included are many of Caddy's paintings..."