The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-09
we Etnnoloa, os America.

posed e. present testimony establish the strongest
PROBABILITY ofa migration to continent many hundred
years before tn Christian In doing feii him
sell eubaFrased from the that in order 70 present
Il IN the best mode he wout hsve to tell the simple story
o. the process in his mind, he travelled sep by
rep In his investigators, and would thereby subject
himself 10 tie impuiaon CT egosm After seme further
apology the Doctor related his story After the return
OF the late Mr. Stephens from his poraons In Central
America he submit. ed to the lecturer all the drawings
and daguerreoy that mad been taken by Gather WOOD
part Of which were not ye, pab'bed Tho Doctor also
had the benefit OF personal explorations from both
stephens and Oslnerwooa wlin respect to them:
and the more closely he examined them tue
more he confirmed In . suspicion which, 20 far A
then knew, 70 hnseif but which he had
for some re entertained that alpha letters literal
characters were ~ be found IN inscriptions taxsn
rom The ruins OF Central america mingled with sym.
boo, OF pictorial or other devices did not strike
him 90 s-aree for he knsw that such thing was not
Without precedent; Il was suSn he thought was des
ssypan wri,ers in tnese wcras "osrssn chsrso,srs
Which ceuA'n the WORDS u he sacred formula. CO n
party By cerain marks notes. intricssely kaotted
revo'vpg Ia the manner of wheel crowded ether
IKE the tnoris Of viue, to hide the meaning
from The curiosty Of the profAne." Toe lecturer
thought Apuieus had ihs papyrus written partly
in strictly hisroglyphic char cers aud parity In whist
- called the cured deuutc letter OF Egypt-a Kind Of
writing iIegibe then bus now, iss com
popect elements were oonce'n,d The Doctor supposed
Apu ieus vas wrong in saving that this writing Was
probably hidden frem tne common people Of Egypt 1t
was made OF rough rep-s pxtons by pictures of
sibie obeois and The curssd denote wr ing which
nov known TO De made ~ OF phonetic char actors This
SUSPICION tha, tire DESCRIPTIONS III Central America
made up parity OF alphabetical characters and partly OF
rude PICTURES further confirmed b. what Of The
companions OF Column Peer Martyr had spoken o.
having seou in she early TO America, viz Cha
rocers very much se the spanish letters written 10 our
manner, line after hue, with characters like email
aloe fish hooks, snsres files, starr, and other like
am .Sd Ss ney as ns ssS Si a
shapes OF men and OF asa ana especially kings
aud POOLE, " very celeb a,ed writing Of this descrp
uon OF W. ch sse Doctor possessed copy, WAS what
called The Dresden manuscript corr spending
retey 10 Gbe descpton of err Martyr To verify these
suspcsoSs the lecturer all the drawings
~ various times by different artists OF the inscriptions
Central America aud Yucs'an. ~ith single view
tract them such acters to him 10 be
strictly lstiers-Ana long tack it There four
sources 10 which he resoried - Gather woods draw
ngs and dseuerreo,ypes closely inspected and
compared a. Tho plates lain I'd work by Cabrera
uapsssed from the Spanish and published In 1921 psl
Rio, Ceps,n Of the sIaonn army, was appointed by tho
crown to make al Off bal examination Of the ruins OF
Paebqus which be made In ,7s7 and employed artist
70 make drawings. These drawings were Ill given to
an e,ceeainsy confused work the subject tue
ffsS pat OF which however. very valuable,
designs b. Csstvaia on three, xpI,fng expeditions,
mads by Dupuy BY order Of the spsrh govern mont In
1906 and Z Dapuy's maou, cripu and Gait, sda's
nanuscrpe were 10 be sen 10 Bfszl but o war break
ing out prevented their smnsioD, AID the artist who
bad pOssesson Of them posted them 10 the Cabinet Of
Natural History in The oty OF Mexico, where they 70
malnec til 1873, when trey discovered. and one
hundred and twenty ave Of toe original wings were
pubst Cd IN Paris 10 1886 The last source o. iufor
NATION was the Dresden maOusort, discovered In H.
bray u Dresden Baron Humboldt, gave . portion
sr.s ..a 'S he late Mr. .ll.su 's sSas U''o
The characters exhibited In the hA ng the appear.
ance Of symbolic not phooe,c nierogly phcs and said
thai II vas not improbable thai the manuscript WAS
oand IN Yucstan or Cen raj America The lecturer had
subsequently, Mcertained tha' rpdeniably came from
from the fact tia, being written there less uaoiy
OF mistake In the cnara yers Upon the scuptured
craving mshi easily mssIe for letters; not 30 when
the marx clearly written on manuscript that 10 per
leouI tseoie, y some OIL these manuscripts are. 10
fully compared the ses OF Stepheas Del Rio and Dapuy
IN every case whsre they proie~ed TO dehneae the
same Inscription and rejected what rot
mon 10 them all. r. then had no dflcuity
n deciding which were designed 10 represent
the same o. apal Was poss lie that be might have
taken pSouc 10 signs we're DO, so but moi proba
bic lie .o,e object n letters formed any
par. o. ms mysterious vIitnr che result Of bis inves
u the epesser (pontng TO Two srse charts with vertical
afiumns extiStrg Inscriptions AKA; rom dnsreni por
cooAibpc ,Ae phonec ssr extracted those nscrp-
poos) wheo be han o,isiucd assumed to be
letters proper al rext buiioes csi them By
psrsoc w.a CHER forms f ancient letters There vas
neo ou' oee American mAnescrps Of -hich the lecturer
80 ", neAa, ~hlon nso oeen uansistes INTO any
living a1ssge he now bpeW Of sno, N taot Possessed
more thaa one,J but that snuscrip from Central
Anfscs aoa Us hntory -" isfy this: Doo francisco
Nu1As Gsi Vega native Of Nes Granada, was couse
Grated 10 ltes N Spain, TO the ONCE Of bishop OF the
diocess Of ChiApas and sopsn.co being zsaoas
he people md ih,ir molsious suersttOrs which be
sspSnL 10 eradicate He Jeff bebna him several works
lhe most ceebrsiei OF which was printed at Rome IN
1zo2 Q part o, which decay interesting 70 the |
Ncheoios1t furnishing various extracts from the ancient
vripos. o. the lepeAi., The sneua!s Of BON be un
derssocd, Translated INTO spanish Tue Tsntal language
vss the mother tongue Throughout Guatemala aud aho
In guoAAn Among ,he manuscripts which came in,o
his posssss on one that protested 10 be written by
Rpsan, OF whom the bisnop speaks thus: 'vo.sn is
Es ,aird Gentle placed Ia the casudar; no
sToto historical usoi In the Indian iiiom.
wherein he mentions by nsms the ps,pie With
whom. and The places where ho bad been In his sves
Up 70 As present time there nss existed family
.sd hat on the arrival VI tfs psoArds hey found this
aane 20 which the irosies, reverence was attached IA
iouad rsu the % ne stl en- stsd In that country The
sspJp 10 this work declined 10 enter Into particulars
o the .upsf,Sn snoyn :. S.susm Dsese %e
bringing hin too romnontly into aotoe he voud revive
snc~iecse among the pstops OF thai which be vas IL
boring ey~iinato He further stated that great mAoy
symbols memorials Of votsu and his horrible saper
sutos deposted 10 cavern or house oosstruoed
ss csr,sp female pies,ess, and q Ger.
nunber Of subordinatss of inferior rsoh were
go.rd.ns 10 issi 81 s's doeI ,S ssrs even yp
span ards and ~ order Of The Bishop they we're publicly
burned oecause they would tend 70 keep sivs Is q:
supposed, this dolatry 50 She bishop was vir ess OF
tbs manuscripts; but probably We would never have
4po-p any more about Il than be had mentioned had u
ucs ben Tor snoher eccesiasic, Father Francesca OF
the order Of san Domingo IN cbispas and Guatemala
vho became skied In the Zsudsl language and Vas
fsmliU vth the idolatries OF the people 10 fact he
tae 6ri European VINO translated that language
INTO Fart tongue. He translated this manuscript
OF vosAn, preserving In his cork the original L,ncal
teri Also other documents, ard accompanied them
with notes in work called "Gsntlsm or Pagan
sm." Be slso composed Q dictionary OF toe
lsnsusfe sod ia oognaie dialects but HE great
vo-t Yves Q nlst-ry OF the province Of Cnapss
and GYss mAa, IN iour manuscript volumes, in
which be followed The hisorical statements OF the
orxnA IsdiAh documents. None o. these books have
ever bser cubs he'd lhey suppressed By the woe
roys osp,sn stBerSl and TIE slpcrios Of The ohuron
yortuaAts, however, Lhey eore preserved w manu-,
script tbb history OF Notan. TO which Rshop Del
vegs fell into the hands Of one sho nj that time
under ssccd purpori Aad value better thar any man
living boa Pamond de Ordonas, who died N oar osn
rns, whs dsvoted thirty yaArs OF his lie 70 the
same scyos Il ~ss proved 70 be Identical with that
rpoueu OF - Bishop Del VEGA and described by Ca
hrers sss history Of thes q ~ coming OF Voans
Anoestors AZ The top Of The fret Loaf he tvo con.
tlpeois painted In different colors, In two small
squsres-kuoye, Asa and Africa beng depoted oy
character Ike upright end Americs BY an
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