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They came to the turnoff for a town called Tenochitlan, some forty / miles from Maya City. Calhoun swung off the highway to go through it.
Whoever had chosen the name Maya for this planet had been interested / in the legends of Yucatan, back on Earth. There were many instances of / such hobbies in a Med Ship's list of ports of call. Calhoun touched / ground regularly on planets that had been named for countries and towns / when men first roamed the stars, and nostalgically christened their / discoveries with names suggested by homesickness. There was a Tralee, / and a Dorset, and an Eire. Colonists not infrequently took their / world's given name as a pattern and chose related names for seas and / peninsulas and mountain chains. On Texia the landing-grid rose near a / town called Corral and the principal meat-packing settlement was named / Roundup.