34-38.

and 299; Herrera, _Historia de las Indias_, Dec.
iv, Lib.

x, cap ii.] In gratifying confirmation of the legend, travelers do actually find in Mayapan and Chichen Itza, and nowhere else in Yucatan, the ruins of two circular temples with doors opening toward the cardinal points[1].
[Footnote 1: Stephens, _Incidents of Travel in Yucatan_, Vol.

ii, p.

298.] Under the beneficent rule of Kukulcan, the nation enjoyed its halcyon days of peace and prosperity.