| Show RICH FIELD FOR EXPLORERS abo kuln ot two great prehistoric clelea found la central ada in central and eastern asia there lies an unexplored region full of interest and to the archaeologist especially says the pittsburgh dispatch A great traveler and clever writer the russian gen speaking of the oasis of situated in the great table lands hemmed in by the there unbroken wall of the himalayas says that close to it are the ruins of two great cities the oldest of which according to local tradition was destroyed three thousand years ago and the other by the mongolians Mongo lians in alie tenth century of our era the emplacement of the two cities is now covered owing to the shifting sands and desert winds with strange and heterogeneous relics broken china kitchen utensils and human bones the pa tives often find copper and gold coins ingols ingots diamonds and turquoises and what is most remarkable broken glass coffins of somo wood or material are there also within which beautifully preserved embalmer embalmed ed bodies are found the male mummies arc all enormously tall powerfully built men with long wavy hair A vault was found with twelve dead men sitting in it another time in a se coffin a young girl was found by us her eyes were closed with golden disks and the jaws held firm by a golden circlet running from under the chin across the top of the head clad in a narrow woolen garment her bosom was covered with golden stars her feet being left naked to this the lecturer adds that all along the way on the river they heard legends about twenty three towns buried years ago by the sands of the desert the same tradition exists on the lob nor and in the oasis of berva ame mme hlavatsky Bla yhu was in the earlier part of her life a great and indefatigable de traveler covering more ground in a given time than is usually accomplished by even those of the sterner and more enduring sex bears witness also to those ancient huinh which she openly avers are prehistoric the pages of her works also make frequent reference to other ruins of ancient character scattered throughout the desert regions of central asia she hints too at buried crypts and underground vaults in the desert of gobi in particular in which arc stored many of the preserved records of the ages however this may be the ruins dc are certainly in place awaiting tho or gamed efforts of science to recover for the world a long forgotten page in the history of the peoples of the globo or as an fn th case of troy private enterprise may step in and continuing the investigations begun by the russian traveler read this riddle of a bygone civilization aright |
