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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH Golden Relics of Old Race OLD STORY OF VOYAGE OF 1492 proposition a Utile more to heart and undertook to find out what was back of that man and why be stuck to his proposition. Then the king commanded that a galley be and he also supplied two swift ships with provisions and whatever else was necessary. When these ships were ready Columbus sailed from the Spanish coast on the first day of the autumn month, in the year after the birth of Christ 1492, and d thus went on his Journey." After leaving the Canaries, which were Infested with cannibals, Herr relates, Columbus "sailed for thirty-thre- e days and nights steadily toward the setting sun and saw no land. At last he saw while on watch an Island, and as be came closer be saw six islands, two large ones. One of these he called Hispana and the other he called Johanna. They have never been able to determine definitely whether the Island Johanna was an island or not Still as they sailed along the coast they beard many birds sing, especially nightingales, which lived in the thick forests in the winter. They also saw much fresh water there which was pleasant to drink, and many large and beautiful ports as they sailed with the northwest wind. After they out-fitte- d, Discovery of Ornaments and Trinkets of a Lon-Parenoa nas Aroused Archeologists to Speculation as to the Makers. Four or five yean ago several poor and Ignorant natives were poling their way In a canoe up the Rio Grande de Cocle. a large river In western Panama about 90 miles jonth of the Panama canal The dry season bad lowered the, river. As the small craft made, its way upstream, the keen eyes of one of the natives noted something glittering In the bank. In a few minutes greedy hands were tearing at the soil, for they had found pieces of gold. The fact that the gold articles were objects of art beaten into curious and beautiful shapes by bands long dead, did not Interest the natives. But It did Interest scientists. When word of the find came to the Peabody museum of Harvard university, a party of archeologists went down to Investigate. The scientists worked in secret for three years, and have now returned with a store of gold objects worth a king's ransom. In the opinion of Dr. S. K. Lothrop, leader of the expedition, they represent the art of a civilization in Panama that has hitherto been unknown to science. The chance which brought scientists to the spot was due to a shift in the bed of the Itio de Cocle. In changing its course the stream cut through an ancient burying place. The gold ornaments which excited the interest of the natives were part of the funeral dress of some chieftain, buried not only with his richest possessions of metal and pottery, but surrounded also by his wives, retainers, servants and slaves. The abundance of similar finds made by the Peabody museum party In its three-yea- r sojourn in Panama was almost without precedent Describing the results of the expedition recently In the New York Times Magazine, Doctor Lothrop reported that from one grave alone, measuring no more than 12 by 14 feet, more than 2,000 objects were removed. The grave contained a score of bodies, laid out in rows upon massive stone slabs. Piled over and around the bones were 96 different objects of gold, including four heavy pends siones, ants, set with six gold necklaces containing thousands of beads, four large and heavily embossed golden discs, twenty-eigh- t discs about 3 Inches wide which had once been sewn on a shirt, four pairs of gold cuffs and twenty-fou- r rods of gold with decorated tips, for Insertion In the ears. There were 225 pottery vessels, both for domestic service and for reThere were 57 ligious offerings. stone axes and chisels, five gold chisels, 21 stone kujves, 100 stone arrow points, nine mirrors of hematite set in limestone discs, pendants and beads of agate, statuettes carved from the ribs of the manatee or sea cow, some of them overlaid with gold; wild boars' tusks set in gold, sting-rateeth spines and saw-fls- h used as spear points, sharks' tooth necklaces, crystals, gilded copper ornaments and many other objects. "Such a list gives but a pale picture of the reality," said Doctor Lothrop. "Gold dos not tarnish In the earth and It appeared gleaming in the sun as our knives and brushes removed the accumulated layers of dirt. Intricate designs beaten In high relief met the eye; huge breastplates embossed with mythological monsters; gold cuffs running in sheets from wrist to elbow, each pair stamped with a distinctive design or property mark (corresponding to our coat of arms) ; complex castings of strange anthropomorphic gods fashioned in molds over delicate models in wax. The richness, variety and fine workmanship of these possessions Indicate, that a wealthy and highly organized culture produced them. Doctor Lothrop and his associates believe, from a study of the relics, that the Panama peoples were unrelated In culture either to their neighbors the Mayas and Aztecs to the northwest, or the Incas to the south. In short, the discovery of these graves has brought to light remains of a hitherto unknown American civilization, as great and Important In its way, perhaps, as any of tte others. Who were these people? Histories relati that a party of Spaniards In earcll of gold left the coast of Pan- n semi-preciou- st iama In I ; 1515. Movin Inland, the - a district ruled by a power " mci unuii i arii a, wno by a stratagem administered Slirh a rmoh. lng defeat to the Spaniards that they were driven off. aeverai years later a band of Spaniards searching for him found his body elaborately decked for burial surrounded br bound tives who were to accompany him io ms grave. His body was adorned rrom Head to foot with eolden orna ments and many others were in bas kets nearby. Stripping the body and robbing the baskets, the Spaniards returned to the coast with more than 300 pounds of gold. Parlta and his subjects were remnants of the once-grecivilization which produced the orna ments and relics recently unrovermi by archeologists. From the Literary came w 10 uigesi. a was Columbus Christopher "brave, big man with a long, red, freckled fare." Such was the description of the discoverer of America in one of the first printed accounts of bis discoveries "The New World," by Michael Eerr, published at Strassburg in 1534 which has Just come to light In the collection of old scientific books in the Smithsonian institution's library. Kerr's accounts are quite naive. Thus be relates the Columbus story: "He had good hopes that he could discover before sundown several islands which would be of great pleasure and nse to the people. With regard to those islands that lay in front of India, he himself expected to find costly pearls and all sorts of precious stones; also spices and ranch gold. The king and queen made fun of him as a man who was engaged In a foolish task and let the thing go as a good joke. At last after eight years had gone by and Christopher continued to beseech the king, the king began to take the TASK FOR YOUTH, TO BRING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD RESTORE POWER A lS the millions . 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"It Is possible It Is even probable that man will prove far more Incorrigible than nature." Cleaned long-desire- had sailed 800 miles and still fonnd no end they thought it to be a part of a continent Therefore they considered to retrace their Journey. To this the storms contributed, for the masts began to loosen. Therefore, Columbus commanded the ship to be turned in the direction of the rising sun. Thus they came soon to the island which they named Hispana and there they explored the land diligently. Then toward midnight as . they neared a cape the large ship struck a rock so that It went apart The boat could not sink, however, because the stone was so flat Quickly they transshipped to another boat and saved their companions who were now half dead. But when they reached the land and saw the inhabitants, the latter fled quickly into the thick forest Just like when a dog chases a rabbit" Smithsonian Institution Bulletin. fmZf. . . Mail tho coupon today . . 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