Show ORIGIN OF IMAGES UNKNOWN mysterious stone figures a puzzle to sc en ats in the national museum at wash ington stands an enormous stone am age from easter island in the south era pacific ocean this island ls 2 miles distant from any other inhabited spot there are over these images on this island and formerly the tood in groups of six and twelve platforms of hewn stone but in the latar ears they were thrown down during the civil wa be rid si tween the natives most of these colossal figures are to be found at the eastern end of the island they are hewn out of the volcanic of an extinct crater and transported over its sides for three or four miles the island Is almost treeless and the wonder Is how the savages remove objects so fragile and weigh ing from three to thirty tons over ground so rugged to their destination j there are now people living on easter island all ol 01 pure sian stock they know nothing of the erection of these images and it Is quite evident that they are descend ants of later immigrants this mysterious image was pro cured with many others of ethnologic al interest during a twelve day visit 0 o the island by tho united states ship mohican under command of day U S N in the year 1886 |