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Show I i -i j j EXPLOREH HAS DELVED i AMONG ANCIENT CITIES ! MiOf Nfw Things Learned About Ihe Strange Aztec j CtTilirttion Destroyed by Cortet - Remarkable Sped- I mens of Sculpture Found 1 . j (Hportal CrrrdH)i(fni 9.) I Another ihaptcr 1ia Imtii aM,f1 to j th eiploraMon of thn rnlnr,! dllr of 1 Central Atnrrir. unci, the mU of the 1 itrno Attfr rlvlllxntlnn dcntroywl lijr I CortfR nearly flvu rr nturlfji M". In j th rH 'iiil)f puliIlHhril report of Too- I twrt AUlpr. who for m-vithI yearn ha I hn rnniliif lime i eat-art-hca amonK j thi ancient ruin In llio lniriata of I th PcslHHly MtiM-mn of Arrholigr 3 and RlhnnloK'jr at lUrvanl untveriltr I Mr. Malcr a riphirnlloua utrctrhfd 1 over throe y ar. mill w-r rarrh'd on mainly In thn Unnmat alitlla valley. In ou thorn Mrxlru. Anionic tho Ioiik foraotirn iHIm whlrh Mr. Mnlrr v i 1 1 td war Yaxrhllan, lltorally the "City df the lrn HtoiH;" Kl ('), thr "1'lnrtj Whnrr th Ilanka Am Htrewn With Htonca;" "Htidallha," or "Hntnk-Inn "Hntnk-Inn Water." .from Hi mint rip In from an adjarimt watnrfall, Kl (.'Ml ao 1 called from tho hrh fnim trhirh chile aura tn niml: Analln, named for thi white llllra that mnirlnh on thn hanki of the river; and Kl CMcoza,ot,. named from a tree whlrh prndutee a wellknown Mexican rht-wliiK "in. At I -a Mar there atlll remained auflV rlent evlilenin or It ancient utrtic I turea to riM-onatnu t a very good pic ture of one or thn mall it rltlea of tne Altec period. The architectural run-tr run-tr nf the. city, It waa found, wni formed: by two tomplri, now In rulna, which crowned two pyrntnlda, one facing to Ihe east and the other to the west. Between the py ram I da win a wide plura Intrdered on the north and aotiih hy amaller hulldliiK. Thu plaxa waa originally ornamented with telae, one of whlrh, although irv-lug irv-lug only to adorn ao amall a city aa t,a Mar, la a aplemlld aperlmen of the heat contemporary Attic arulpttire. It ha hm-n auMKCHted that Yaxrhllan, Yaxrhl-lan, thn mont Imporlnnt of Ihe ancient rltlea which Mr. Mul-T vlnited. may have bron the towu referred to hy forlri In a letter to hla mauler, the Kmperor Tharlea V, although Mr. Ma-. Ma-. ler hliuxetr rather douhta the Itlontlfl- cation. "There immt have horn heavy ruin falli In dUlnnt (luntenmla and euHlern ClilupaR," aaya Mr. Mnlrr, In deitrrlh-In deitrrlh-In a; hla approach to Yaxrhllnn, "fur the tJauiiialHlntla waa excetfllvuly .' high, having rlnen to thn vnry e.lKo of the bl(!h hatjkn, which made pnirem i lip the river evrnedhiKly difficult. We had to fnrco our way throuuh ) : hranchet of treea project, htc out of the ' aater, and nflen we had to ue our nifhea tn ''iiuv the obntni'lc tin- i pttiim oyr war. m . . . , . j "Win n wo rented at ihkM," hu con- 1 tin Hex, "we lUKteued our cuyuco to (ho I . branrhea of a Knut 1 hlmou and pro j , loctcd ourxelvev and our humane a well aa we could with oltod cloC.a i ayatiiHt the heavy k.U'ht rain. It wni , ' not piHialhle to ko on whore, aa every- i thlttN wia fliMled. At noon of thoaec- ntid duy we fluully arrived at thn ! ruined city. f Thn aucleht city, Mr. Malnr anorta waa not a rity of a'reetn, hul uf ter- j race r' 'tr from a wilier I runt that la alov." and hievltuhly holiiK enten 1 away hy too turbulence of thu river Many of tho utructurm were ao over-' over-' Kron that tliey cuulil not he cxuivat ' rd, and phntcKiiipha of varlnua pnrta 1 nf the rulim hud to h tuken at Ppo- rial inoiuenlH when the nun forced tx wuy tlinmh tho thhk Mink. Here - and there wero fnund clrcuUr atone altnra, pmhahly net up over U10 grave of pontona of rnnk. About tho templet i wem many beautiful atone ateliio j curved on hiith fctdea the aide tucln I the t'Mtiple nl1110.it Invarluhly repiu- mm ' V A Lintel of Yaxchllnn. I icntlnK thv uri't cut KiMnnlkoatl. j So tonm to have lii'.'n tho ii'cll 1 dully nf thu lily, wlillw tlui uthur aide 1 ri'pri'm'ittt'il a biiuian Hnure. rerhapa the mt riuurkubl of the r) mniiioniilH Mr. Mulr iIImcovvkmI la a i arulpturi'd Unti l whhh ho muithlvm '1 1 the fluent plt'cn nf aculDturn ypt ftnmil ! I In thn rlly II was ilmie 'n Hue- ! (tralnecl IIm.iIoiiu nf a litht yillw nil. or uml no lir.vu rn .l thai li IimiUimI j a m'w If It hn.l )nt I rt I hi- IikihIi .J of the n-ulitnr. The Ili'Mlf Ih Unit of 4 I a wurrhir. IhiIHiik In htH nr.ht hum) 1 what n.iiirA hi hi a iimIvit wllh Ikiw ' and aiiows whlih ht xtiMiiln lowiu-tl a acromi warrior. Fruni lua hIioiiIiIit t liauK" an ornuioi-nt of rnnln to whhh ' are aitnr-lt4l tho tlvo human hoaU of 1 an iimi'v yliiln "t oioli'-i 'In wo.Tni a I hnKc hi'lini't, aitoriH-il with fimihera, 1 on tho fn.nl or whlrh l iM'iinl lh I nmnll tU'iini of a ioho rui'il'i uniii'uir it bnman bi'ail. A nornut with opn f Jawa rlfio from the ti of Ihe hiiluii't. Here, aln. In thu loouiln of Krtital- t koatl, much of whh-h la atlll atandliiK. the explorer found a great flKure of the gotl alttlnn crona leKed and yet an (all that It orlKlnally muxt have ai-mont ai-mont touched the celllnK- Aa a whole It la curlotialy UKKntlve of aome of the Kantern repreneiitallona of the Hindoo lluddha. The eyea, alao, are ohllqiit?, like a rhlnamau'a- two facta which are liitereMlnir In view of the theory that America ai acttled from AhIh. More curious nllll la the utory of the wood cut fern who work In the nelKhhorlnrc forat and who told Mr. Mater that the Intllant atlll come and offer BaerlhVra d t hla ery Imaxe. burning Inrenie In vemielN adorned with feathera. and performing atranRe dancea one of whhh la called the "Dance of the Toucan" hecaiiMn the dancera wear the at lifted nkln of thla An Altec Sculpture. hlrd an a h.ad druna. Whoure thi-y roine and whi'iire Ihry ko not even the wood rtitt"ra ran armwor. |
