Show MAN V I 1 NEWS OF AN UNKNOWN LAND reno bache writes to the boston transcript Trans crit from washington n what has always been reg regarded aided as an ail island of mystery and wonder has been recently explored by an ail expedition of the smithsonian institute with the result of throwing a flood of light upon its history and tile the origin of the marvels of human handiwork found there this far off spot in the midst of the vast pacific goes far to realize the imaginary kingdom of kor once the resi resi dence of a numerous population and afterwards an immense cemetery its thousands of rocky caverns filled with the bones of moul derina M dead such buch in truth ia the famous easter island which has so long been a puzzle to and students of antiquity tablets tablet of wood have been discovered bearing inscriptions in n an ancient language which tell many surprising things although but a rock of jaya aya thrown up from the he depths of the sea and having 0 an area of only thirty two square the island onie possessed a population of more than twenty thousand tho the huge leuv quantities of auman i remains and the giga gigantic nair pha af q ohp ruined prove jip he ocr occupancy af a large population for 4 of many hundred years vp up in the mountains are found the workshops work shops of the sculptors who carved the great stone images out of the volcanic rock that lay in ruins scattered about the island the art of this vanished race has left memorials of art now lost to the world on the very rocks of the island are carved images images 0 of human beings birds and fishes in all stages of and statues ready to be taken away the largest of w them seventy feet in height the head alone inea measuring suring twenty eight t feet there are ninety three of suck such statues in one crater forty of them are arc finished so 4 great reat a feat of engineering was involved 0 that one is lost in ill solli lf r it il the ingenuity of this tin s people in transporting these images to every part of the island the average weight of the images is about twelve tons hut but some of them weigh as much as forty tons the interior of of the volcanic crater is cut into terraces one above the other where the quarrying in of these stone giants was done one hundred and forty five were counted by the expedition on oll the island local traditions say that it bc belonged to a powerful clan which was finally defeated in war for some reason which in till ill probability will forever remain a mystery their work vas nas suddenly slopped ped never to be resumed they were continually at war fth each other oilier the last of tile kings 0 were captured and carried away by the peruvians in the year 1863 and most of the able bodied men were doomed to work in the gunno denoms tile the few who were finally released all save two died led of small smallpox pox on oil their voyage age back to the island the alie disease 0 being 0 carried ashore wiped willed out the population with the exception of persons there seems no doubt that easler easier island was originally colonized by malayo polynesian stock wonderful monuments of antiquity are scattered all through polynesia and there is hardly a group of islands on which the explorer cannot find 0 great works architectural and otherwise of people who passed away ages ago in the friendly islands there are nineteen truncated pyramids each feet square the stones of which many of them are eighteen feet long and weigh twenty tons each the construction of those pyramids extend over a period of 1250 years they are now overgrown by dense forests the architectural ruins of java surpass those of central america at chandi sewa are found the remains of what was once au an assemblage of temples in the center of all is a large temple in the shape of a cross across eighty miles to the eastward is the temple of consisting of a central dome fifty feet in diameter around which is a triple circle of seventy two towers tile whole building being feet square and one hundred feet high in ill the walls are arc niches containing 0 four hundred cross le legged L n red figures larger than life the amount of human labor and skill expended upon the pyramids of egypt r sinks into insignificance when compared with that which was required to complete this sculptured temple in the interior of java forty miles mile southwest of Sam arany on the same island is an axtens ive plateau covered with the ruins of temples to reach which four stone stairways were constructed each containing more than a thousand steps traces of more than four hundred temples are found there all of them decorated with rich and delicate sculptures la in eastern java the ruins of the forts palaces baths temples and aqueducts are arc to be seen everywhere likewise all through polynesia are stupendous ruins illustrating the science and state stale of past ages and vanquished raees E it correspondent COK RESPONDENT |