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CITY LOST FOR 1,500 YEARS.
MAYA RUINS IN THE BUSH.
CHUMUCHA TEMPLES AND PYRAMIS,
BRITISH EXPEDITION'S GREAT FINDS.
The British Museum expedition, which returned recently from Cen tral America, had an exceptionally successful field interesting and season in the south-west of British Honduras, a region hardly explored hitherto In the previous year the existence of ruins in this locality had been reported by a mahogany cutter, searching for these trees in the forest, and the object, of the members of the expedition, which consisted of Captain Gruning, Mr. Clive Smith, and myself, was to cx plore and report upon this dis-
covery,
depository during the life of the city, as its floor was covered with an earth layer, 8ft, deep, full of broken fragments of pottery, flint, and obsidian implementa,
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Some of the pataherds are ex- quisitely coloured in red, green, yellow, black and white, and or namented with human sgures and hieroglyphic inscriptions, and it is hoped next year to obtain from thisnese cave rubbish heap a perfect picture of the gradual evolution of culture in the city from the earliest to the latest period.
K.O.S.B., Kowloon 22. Police, Queen's South China, Recreio u. Club. Second Division: University v. R.A.F., South China "A" K.O.S.B., Eastern v. Navy, Such a stratigraphic record has Queen's v. Kowloon, Royal Artillery never before been obtained in the St. Joseph's, Recreio v. South
China "B" Maya area.
Units.
Wo dug out a number of burial mounds, in one of which an Indian found a beautifully sculptured nearly life sized bead.. It was that of an old man with, a diabolical expression, farge flat nose, immense mouth and lips, and slanting malignant eyes. Instead of deliver
We found a complete ruined Maya city, lost fer 15 centuries in the depths of the virgin bush which covers this part of Central America, and unvisited and unknown except perhaps to a few wandering Tadina hunters, who would pass it without interest, not realising that it was the work of their great ancestors of 50 generations ago,
We named it "Chumucha," oring this up he took it home with between the waters," as it is in him, probably with the idea of the fork formed by two streams, stealing it. That night there oc- curred a ride shock of earth. quake.
Secret Of Hidroglyphics.
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The city was divided into a civil and religious centre. Of the latter, the plaza, surrounded by d stone- faced pyramids, upon which ori ginally stood the temples, was the centre. Within it were found no fewer than 20 great monoliths. upon which we deciphered 19 dates, ranging from A.D. 314 to 471.
Next morning our Indian labour ers turned up in front of the shack when we were having early coffee Their spokesman, an evil-faced old man, who had found the head, pre- duced it from his shot-bag; dumped it on the table, announced that they were not going to work any more, and demanded their wages.
Had they left us we should have been in an extracly awkward posi
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The civil centre consisted of great rauges of terraces 250ft high, artificially constructed, and walled with large hincks of stond. They were cut along the aides of the chains of hills which occupy both banks of the Pusilha River.
Bridge St Standing, Connecting these two sets of re- sidential terraces was a bridge across the river, the only aboriginal structure of the kind, known on the American Continent.
It consists of two stone abut- ments, 15ft. high, with paved spil ways beside each, to carry off the flood water. It has withstood for 15 centuries the tremendous flooda which occur in this river during the rainy season, when great logs come hurtling down the swollen stream like battering rams, and is still almost as good a state of preserva- tion as when it' was first construct ed, a stupendous task in engineer ing for a people acquainted only with stone implements.
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It is doubtful whether any modern bridge would be in A equally good state of preservation if unrepaired for 1,500 years.
Another extremely important dis covery was a cave at the base of one of the residential terraces, which had evidently been used as a rubbish
RENEWED YOUTH IN A PLAY.
DR. VORONOFF DENIES ITS POSSIBILITY.
J PARIS, Nov. 29th. "I do not think science will ever succeed in making time go back- ward! The idea that old men can
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"Madame
but with no effect. Finally I told them that if they deserted they would get no back pay. This gave "World Theatre: "The Quarter- them pause, and after conferring back." together they decided not to down Star Theatro: The Magic tools.
Flame." Later, I discovered the cause of. European Mail:-Inward: Europe the strike. It appeared they were, all aroused in the early hours of the tif Negapatan (Kum Swag). morning by the quake. To them, lying in their hammocks, shivering with fear, the finder of the head re- lated his tale. In the night, he said, the bead had erected itself and spoken to him as follows:-
Monday. (December 31st}
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You are all committing a ter- rible crime in digging up the graves of your ancestors, and to- morrow you must leave work and never return. If you do not, you shall die within the year. The back." old gods have no power over the Christians, who worship a new God of their ow; but they have complete power over you, whose ancestors, worshipped them...
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Kong Hotel (Special Dinner Empire's Only Maya Oity. Dance), 8p.m.; Repulse Bay Hotel The finding of this compact little (Carnival); Lane, Crawford's Res city with its many unique features,taurant (Special Carnival Dinner a bridge 30 feet wide over the river, Dance); King Edward Hotel cave rubbish heaps from which the (Special Dinner Dance); Craigen-
gower Cricket Club Dance. art history of the city may be re- constructed over a period of many centuries, and a profusion of dated monoliths is one of the most im- portant discoveries" in American archeology during recent years.
A most important point about the discovery is that Chumuchh is the only known ancient Maya city in the British Empire.
The British Museum will continun the work of exploration next year...
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