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archipelago, where the often angry lake of Nicaragua has checked
the development of the verdant cover, the black, gloomy basalt is
still open to the view, lashed by white-foaming waves. In several
of the islets statues were measured and delineated, but unfortunately
the photographic apparatus could not be used on this occasion.
After a stay of some days among Las Isletas and a short visit to
Granada for the purpose of completing my photographic outfit, I
set sail for Zapatera. On my arrival I encamped for a long time
on the playa of Bahia de Chiquero. Along the playa of the
semicircular bay there are now five houses, the homes of as many
families, being the only inhabitants at the present time of this
large and fertile island, which was, no doubt, formerly populated
by many thousands of Niquirans, possessing rich towns and splendid
temples. The islet of Ceiba is situated off Bahia de Chiquero (see
map 2). According to my opinion, Zapatera is certainly a volcanic
island, but in this manner, that its north-western part is the summit
of a sunken volcanic cone, Bahia de Chiquero being the crater
itself, the narrow, elevated mountain-ridge which surrounds the bay,
forming the edge of the crater and the islet of Ceiba the
continuation of this edge. Laguna de Apoyo, situated scarcely one
kilometer from the shore, may. then be regarded as a side-crater.
Zapatera exhibits an abundant variety of beautiful scenery,
delightful valleys, watered by streams and rivulets, fertile elevated
plains, magnificent mountain-cones, clothed in verdure to the very
summits, and bays and lagoons offering excellent harbours.
Unfortunately I had not an opportunity of examining, in an archæologic
point of view, more than a part of the north side of the island
and the islet of Ceiba. My kind hosts of the settlement in the
island, Don José Lobo, Donna Julia Solorzano, S:rita Virginia
Mora, Don Jacinto Mora and others, zealously assisted me in my
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