Show prehistoric P RIC CITIES OF YUCATAN continued f from r iiii last ast issue PEOPLE SEVEN FEET TALL TALI the th e western wall of the eity city was pierced wit with h innumerable niebes niches which served us as crypts for the burial of the dead and each was sealed with a massive copp copper r seal bearing tile the imprint of a twenty one rayed sun suit the explorers forced sever several alof of these tombs and found N within v coffins coall of solid native copper fastened with screws brews of the san same io maien I 1 al while within were 1 cummi tied ried remains ren jains of the dead of bogli sexes thoy they about seven feet in ill height and their features were of a distinctly jewish cast on oil tho the arms arins and limbs of both nien men and wo women nen were rings ri elaborately elabdi abely chafed chafee of gol gold 1 silver and coPI copper cr while without exception tiani a benall ull spike ot of go gold id was va 6 inserted hiser ted ji tile palm palin of each right I hand after making an exhaustive of the buildings illings bu of the unknown lir city the explorers returned to their camp garr carrying ying with them ns as hoskov a load is ap they could pack jack 1 atho of ft the ho curi curious offis relics which they had bad unearth ed fur for nearly four months following tho the discovery of ti this Is wonderful city they journeyed soil southward 01 iva d oc alv meeting small bands of Yuca tans tIlls a 1 1 sti small lall well formed kindly peo ale who vilo cleat treated orl their visitors with Illi ceasing courtesy C and 1111 hospitality that were vere not tile the founders of the ge city was evi evident delit not adv aly from their ignorance ot of IS its very ex istance elloe but because becciu e they acou occupied it a much lower grade of deiv it and id the llie unknown people atio vio alad passed from the memory Illein ory of 4 maii kind researches AT PALANQUE i seven months bitker alter leaving mexico eity city tile the explorers and III their f ruith ful guide gaide reached the strange e city ot of palanque tan found in their I 1 leir j 1 S excavation and I 1 inexplicable ties p isable of t alie I 1 I 1 c forgotten civilization 0 o of its tor for mer alt alerc rj too they tit ey found an all immense number of copl copper copler er and ilver hilver cliot e found i in it the he ci ty of the Ill ebil fl c I 1 I 1 lofv they had named ame Amer amerious iaus it und nd altic alao ill in everyone of these prehistoric cities were found carvings and pictures in ill partially partia lly obliterated pigments of suns always with ex exactly a twenty one PO points ints or rays radiating 0 from the center here they also ua o blied an it implement resembling tai the e old fashioned loom of our new england forefathers hers together with rotted brands of silk bilk thread matted together without definite or inife forni form or co color or that tobacco was known to the new world ages before sir lair I 1 walter raleigh kaleigh gave it a boom was evident from froin tile large llulu numbers bers of curiously wrought and engraved graven en p pipes ipes some borne of sil yard but tor for the most of a peculiar hat hard d finished clay cahty mounted with gold or silver trimmings some of tile the latter kill kind la largo l go to hold a half pound of oe lob tobacco TAKE LIKE telegraphic TELEGRAPH 10 KEY KEY at in a subterranean room be neath lie tit tit an old temple in palanque que were discovered several beveral copper wires vires running running hum a 1 peculiar instrument resembling embling reb some soine what a tele telegraph raph key 0 to o 9 the room above its connection was found with a drum druin blamed instrument attached elied to he ie inside of the largest copper tri trim minet mes stone image which stood in the centea of what had at one olle time evidently i been beet t ili an imin ense audience hull for all alie e put purpose pose of worship ilip for the ioa idol resembling tit an immense ape had for headpiece 1 a I tw ety on point sun still anide onolie col copper coipel pel which at some tune had been aligi highly dy burnished and orna dented with stones of s clia character I 1 a as s t hown by several cavities in ill which they lind hud rested the ston stones es having boen re moved probably by a I 1 fists or explorers whose visit alite antedated dated that hiat of tile tiie smithsonian ian professor and tit in the vicinity of palanque larque Pa W was as tile only place during tile the e taire entire 0 trip i that tile lie travelers found what is known as 1 ing 11 P fisli ivy and ent entwined amid the shattered colu winding vii iding its IV way through fallen i walls alls or cl creeping peping over ruil ruined led dwellings b were great massei of rosil real english ivy and not being able to satisfactorily eipl explain it i 11 its ap pem 1 tint billal 0 1 so b many thousands of milt b s from frimi its native li livnah vaili the lie bitnes tn ui dech tred that alik blooming g iva evv had been hi ought brought 14 thare ind I 1 planted by bv I 1 so some I 1 il e blit tod brigit 11 explorer dont 1111 I 1 V iknou allow in event tilt P 1 C 1 t hh u i ita S 1 nie 1 ak inc H ca lilet of brucia mention it in i hi ans s report t t to the institute which he represented re ted SWAMP I 1 to tile north and tho the east of 0 palanque Palan quo is till an immense tract of swamp land from the depths deptris of which corno come strange tige tales talea of 4 inhabitants unknown and un conque conqueror rod some of the villagers whose barrios woke were visited to Pala palanque tique dec declared hared that the swamp surrounded an 1111 immense inellie island scores score of anil miles os 1 in ili diameter upon which lived and had dwelt for hundreds of y years ears 1 a I race of somi ale tall ani and well built wearing clothing from the description of tal the 0 simple vilgo villagers not lot unlike that ol of the ancient athenians while ornaments of goll gold silver ivory and jewels were aver u universally 11 iver sally worn by the males no women having beni been seen outside of the p practically I 1 im in penetrable swamp cotil country itry se several eral tian attempts were I 1 made i by tile the professor and his co companion ln to find it a trail lending leading 4 acres across the swamp to tile the alleged populous ihland but absolutely without success its as the soft oozy 9 ground ro und would not bear their weight and the tangled masses of foliage rendered traveling out of the question throughout tile the entire elutil 0 trip which consul consumed ned eleven months and two weeks the travelers merethe were the r recipients eci of hospitable hosti table attention it and 11 d courtesies alike from alcalde rind hilin humble ble peon I 1 and in spite of the almost incredible hardships hardship ILIO due to exposure and peril hom from wild animals vermin ver inin swift torrents and miasmatic abic swa swamps nips the two explorers accompanied compa nied by their guide buc ceedee e ceded it in reaching belize brit ish honduras afier having traversed a portion of yucatan never before visit visited e d within the knowledge 0 of f the present generation by white in men aln and were heartily welcomed by governor goldsworthy a splendid type of old Eil english glish gentleman at hio comfortable government rosi residence at bekizo nr J L I 1 |