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Show THE GLORY THAT WAS AMERICA, AGES BEFORE ATHENS As Proved on Easter Island, Where Explorers Have Found Remains of a Great Civilization Sunk Beneath the Pacific By Francis Dickie i - n,- '- - it Stan plat forma found en Easter Inland. Undoubtedly tha work of aa ' a ancient American raco .' V. w ! -11. , .t;j l;7r.' . . -s,. -: '" "-.p ' j "7' .r-, ' i ' h ' v . ,y -i - ""-A ,, ... v . .. -. ; ," . 4 , - . ,', ; W . ;.' i w" ' . .iV.-i? --fc. 4.fa . liVeTy a continent pxlntwl In the Padne, V-ir. or join ! to. South America. Of thl i nntinent, Kantcr Ialmid and a few. other lolanda to the wrMwanl are probabljr tin; reniaitin left nhnre the sea by mme freak of nature len the reKt of the conth ncnt tubmerged. VEnV atron proof iicn In the nlmllartty of the work of the unknowa Eaiter Inland people and certain imafea in Kouta America. On the receipt of I'rof. Mariulllan Brown's cnhle your correionlent. -ho waa aware if the prlrate arrheolngiral reeeerch work beinc carrieil on by Mr. Iturnett, of Vancouver, Van-couver, called upon him. Mr. Iliirnett had "jut completed a book -lenreeentint; the compilntion of twenty-fi.'C icara. In this the result of liia Faster Mmliea tiiade in 8011th America are net forth. While the book, "Summer Ilea of Kden," i.. to appear Tn a couple of months' time, the author of it still consented to five a brief outline of hl ideas baeed on his work, this In riew of the remarkable coincidence of Prof. Mscmilisn Hrown's diacneeriea beinc be-inc mat'., public aln-ost at the aame time ke had been writing a theals which In practically every point agrees with the things set forth by an Inveittigntor unknown to him. "For my isrt." aald Mr. Burnett," having hav-ing seen lbs Kaater liland ecu I at urea and ho m iLa ruinn of Tinhuanaca near Lake Titicaca in Houth America, I am In favor of the theory that they art both tbe handiwork handi-work of a race that inhabited portiona of Sooth America and the eastern (roups of (he South I'scinc when lbs latter comprised a great land area; a race that exiated and paned away agea before the Has of tha Inca Kmplre and before th Polynesians left their Aaiitie home on their great journey westward to the Pacific aea. About the only difference between tha iioagea at Tia-l.uanaca Tia-l.uanaca and those na Kaater laland coa sits In the design of the ear. At the forater place thia organ Is depicted in Ita natural ehape, while on Easter Iidand the lobe la largely distended." (The accompanying photo taUen by Mr. Uurnett at Tlabuanaca recently la showa for comparison with the THE fitftWnsting enigina of Emter TTsnd, that myeterinns dot in the PucuV Ocean KHiO ml',, off the coaKt of Chile. ha been solved or at lca-t rip'.ained i pitiMfsctorlly a It i ponniMe for scientinc reearch work-er work-er to do when fared with a problem wrapped In the mine of a tremendounly re-at' re-at' r antiquity. On Aurit 30. Prof. Mnrmillsn Itrown. the noted sntipodean scientific worker, rciwhe I Sydney, Australia, from Easter Inland, after extensive work among the great sculptures and huge atone platT rms of Easter Inland, which relics of a vanished race have been the snhject of much study by archenlogists and anthmpologiata for 200 years. Here en this dot of sn Irlnnd. alone in the wide Pacific, remote by 2300 milea from . the eoat of Chile, and removed 1500 miles from the neareat hnhited place wnen discovered r-Ailinlrnl W"nl'tecii iTT1-'. sis siiiiis of the most remarkable statues' and stone plstfnrms created by a prehistoric race of civilized men. Around the remains center one of the most fnHClnatitig subjects in connection con-nection with the human race. Now through the research of two men working independently of each other, unknown un-known to each other, and recently thousands of miles apart, on the same subject, the mvstery of Eater liOnnd may be said to be solved. By a unique coincidence, both Investigators reached the outaiile world with the results of their finding wl'hin a short titr.e of esch other, Trof. Mncinillan Krown at Sydney, Australia, and Frsnk -Burnett at Vancouver, Canada. IV A short cable which reccl.cd America a f?w days ayo the results of Trol. Mac-r.ll.i". Mac-r.ll.i". Brown's work as girt. out by )im-aelf )im-aelf sr briefly summed ,-. aj f.V.lows: "A:i availabla facta supplied hj the Enster Is-. Is-. Isr.d atona Imnges end mttnunients p.i'.t strongly to th eil-.'eii'-e of a gr'st Vjgons empire In the Pacific sea, a continent which . was submerged thro'ijb some vsst -sinclysm. Frf-m the condition cf eer'nln ioaget in aa nnBnlshed stats so peculiar. It seems alwom. rni!oubab!e Ihot an abrupt abandonment c-f the work must have kv p!nce." While Prof. Mucml'.lsii Trcwn was s-erch Ing at Easter lslsni. th j.-ivsls fsnaillan eiplorer, Frank livirnett. war journeying through S?outh America xaminlnv the stone lmsi.ea and platform work acattered tbera. la an endeavor to trace c connection between be-tween the early inhabitants of South America Amer-ica and the eanlshed race who left the gigantic gigan-tic sculptures on Knitter Ialsnd. Mr. Burnett ocjau his work In Central and (South Amer-U:t Amer-U:t in 1U19. and returned a short time ago to Vancouver. Previous to this for twenty fice yesrs be had rpent much time In tha " South Seas, vitliu; i:at.ter Island on yarloua occasion Like so many other ejplorera and nrrlieo'ogistF, be had been for many years f inatrd by the theory of a continent esi tuw in b.gonc sgr; and bis nrcheolog-1. nrcheolog-1. b, Mud ips through the years pointed mora ai d more to the eitrcme probability of such a . ntlnent exitttiirg. O.i Knter Isloud he found, jutt as Prof. al.i;;l!'n Brown has done, what he con-v.t.ei1. con-v.t.ei1. convincing proof of such a continen: e..i-''iic l'.'r liundrcN of years the story 01 r. "r.ot Atlantic" lias thrilled men's i..i rtiuiio:".. l)onnclI.v, Elliot, Bacon snd otl:.-vn !.s. u;de it almost a reality l: tiielr w .t.i;. IV; haps a continent did rxift Iti :iir .'-intic; but with the Easter Inland lu rill.!:, as evidence it now secu-'S more maskable They rarg In alia froaL Urt f. thirty-eight feet; the most of them average fro:n fifteen to twenty. One, however, la aiaty-nlna fret high and tea feet wlda. Many of them may still be seen In too rrster in an unfinished state. The design la invariably that of a human body terminating terminat-ing at the hl. the anna close to the sidea. The head la flat, surmounted by red crown carved from a distinct atone brought from another crater right ml lea dbtant. Tha images are carved from solid gray lava which la found in the crater of Hotl Itl. There are also huge platforms from twenty to thirty feet high built on alopea facing the aea. These in some rasea are 300 feet long and about thirty feet wide. Like all ancient work of this kind, no cement waa need, yet the joining la perfect. Upon these plat-forma plat-forma are many elatuea, a great many of tbea ..w thrown down." THE solving of the Eaater Island mystery and It aeema only fair to admit It to bo solved. In tha light of all conclusion la of great Interest to tha world at large, particularly par-ticularly aa It polnta to tha eil.tence of prehlatorle continent. In view of thia last word regsrdlng Easter Island and tha eon-duelone eon-duelone of Prof. Mscmilisn Brown and the t'airaolan Investigator, Trank Burnett, as to the eiiatenoe of a submerged continent, lt interesting new to rlevola oomesnace to tha aubject of tha origin of the ancient ' - bo peopled North and South Amer-for Amer-for the Eaater Island and South Amer-lean Amer-lean sculpture seem to prove them kindred , Not only that, but there aeema every " ' to believe them a dlatlnct raeo with-!, with-!, ,ny eonneotlon with 'Europe or Aela. This hss been the contention of numerona authorities. Hclnrl h Schllemen. the fr-t ' rml, authority, hae put himself on record 1. ! "I have arrived at the eoneloalon !h!t Atlantis . tb. er.dlt of civilisation." V- view of the eolrlnf of tha EaaUr ,.l.nd rer, It i- worth, at tU. tlm. . .Ive n concise though complete review of .Brehlstorle American dvllUatlon which T.e4 such a bold atatement. NoThlnt U m Indelible aa speech. Sounds .iS In unknown agea of antiquity were ookap by race, of the earth .till lie. In modern tongues. Langusgea never entirely D , All European. African and Asian unmaiea have been traced tack to their urcea; but tho Nauhal and Its eognata tongueaof America atand alona. They throw no Ulbt on the origin of tho people, because the tongue differs from all known languagea. These primitive Americana were skilled In surgery. . Skulla belonging to men who eMed In Sonth America t least BOO yean before Its discovery by Columbus" war brought bark recently from Ecuador Prof. Marshall Seville, of Columbia TJnteor sity. New York City. And teeth la tbaM skulla were filled with an alloy and crowned with metallic caps, which tho profoanmj assurea na were equal to tho boat dental work of today. Tha architecture and system sys-tem of writing of these prehistorlo people aa demonstrated by tho pre-Colomblaa rotna of TucaUn In Central America, are, diffusa from those of any other raco ancient e modem. They are a new order, and are) entirely and absolutely anomalous. A flail fla-il net people, without any connection with - the other continents, aa dlgenooa aa tha animals, plsnts and fruits, they bar . iahed. Whether tha present-day Indiana are descendants or of another raeo that reached America from Asia long area la tag la a question not to be dwelt upon here. That these people originated oa tha Anas lean continent or some adjoining on aoama probable. Writing -on tha aubject la 191 after hia return from an exploration at . Eaater Island, Clement Wragge, tha celebrated cele-brated traveler and antipodean authority, atated: 'The people who built tho mar-veloue mar-veloue etatuee aad rut tho wonderful la errlptioaa on Fetter Island bad nothing so do with tha Polynesians, but are allied to those dwelling la Central and South arssr- ire long sges igot" Dr. Paul Schllemen, a grandsoa of the arcbeologist and himself a careful atndeat, writing at tho aame time la tho London 'Budget' aaya: "I am as satisfied aa I aav that I exist that a great coatlnent existed, perhape la the Cretaceous period. Tho Ameiicaa Indiana are probably deacendaata , of those people." IIHTR ao mack corroborative evidence of ' earlier scientists, the facta Just brought to light by ths research of tho two men, I'rof. Brown and Mr. Burnett, go far to Trove the contention of a prselatoria continent, con-tinent, and that tho remarkably advanced people who dwelt oa Eaater Island and carved these magnlflcent eta til ea from tha hard gray lava were kindred with tha Bern who raised mighty empires long before th tints of the splendor of tho Incaa. la coaja eluding his writing oa tha aubject. Ma, Burnett aaya: "There these rellca of a bygone people have stood for agea, la (Heal majeaty, overlooking tho tranquil tropin, aea, during which time empires, kingdoms . and dynasties bavs arlssa, attained tbeil aenlth of power and glory, decayed aad. passed away. No doubt whea the present masters of earth have ma thdr course, aad are numbered with thoas whose names and history are only known through , hurled records, and by their 1 ascriptions oa tho everlasting rocks, nations yet anborn wlig . And thosa mystlo evidences of a ewalsaed people atlll gaalng eoaremptoooaly over tho boundless ocean, as lt Imbued with ths greatest disdain for the Booting' year aa4 tha puny so as of men." Sooth American atone atatue, believed by scientists to bo the work of aame race aa at Eaater laland m':::" v . . ster Island photos.) "From sll svailahls '""'a I am fully in agreement with Prof, rown when he states that a suddeu abandon-ot abandon-ot he work came probably with the "" off of food supplies. Tbe workmen "rtt powihl, fcB . ,.h ,,,. I do not think there la any worth-while ground to base a belief en that the carvings are of recent data, which could only mean they were done by Polynesians. Itoggc-veen, Itoggc-veen, In 1771'. could oblsin no information, from the Poiyneaian inhabitants ss to who were the sculptors. No native tradition ever eiitted In respect to their origin. The Polyncaiana pimpjy ssid they were the work of the (ode. winch in other words meant they knew nothing about them. Ths Poly neniana were not carvers In stone, and if they bail been there would be no reaaon for thia sudden abrupt Iraving off of work, an abandonment no doubt hurried, for a number of finished iinarea are left attached to the rK-k from which they, were being carved, 'i'he.-e great busta or Images are very re- ..v " V- r-.T A- ; V t - ,i t : - t , !' - - 1a"t - .j.iii iisii im iaaaeaassaj 1 J ) A stone bust unearthed aa) lUgtat - Inland Unfinished stone image . revealing centuries of age la the oval L'mue auaiature carting is wood found on Easter Island ' ... - |