| Show A LAUDABLE enterprise it is announced that new york is about to possess a very interesting curiosity doctor lib lb Pon geon proposes to raise a specimen of a relief panorama in miniature representing a city of the ancient mayse maym indians in yucatan none better than doctor ceplon le pion geon could accomplish such a useful and beautiful work for he personally in company with his most worthy wife mrs alice le Plon geon eon has become famous for his indefatigable and daring explorations among the ancient cities of the great and unfortunate empire of cayapan may apan cities of palaces monasteries and observatories cities built with cut cat stone and of a very elegant and original architecture the unhappy aborigines try to conceal these places from the view of if strangers as if these ruins rains covered with wild ild vegetation were the last bulwark of that dispersed and afflicted race the doctor and his wife began by learning the maya language and were enabled to win the confidence of the people by living among them for several seasons they among ma made e very valuable discoveries among the ruins rains they passed more than ten years visiting the remainder of the ancient cities of chichen itza uxmal urmal and the islands of the eastern coast of yucatan Yuca ian which are supposed to be rich in relies relics of the I 1 maya indians they discovered the reclining colossal statue known as chae chac mool and took photographic copies and drawings oil of the creater greater part of the carved hieroglyphics on the stones and of the beautifully painted figures which adorn the interior walls of the palaces of ancient indian kings they have investigated tile the history of the mayas to a much greater extent than all that has been published by the chronicles and alphabets of friar diego de landa or by the travels of stephens and the active imaginations of brasseur de bour bourg if doctor le Plon geoa geon can realize his object he will give to the world the practical results of his arduous labors which every enlightened traveler of america ought to examine translated from L la a revesta revista de merida yucatan |
