The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-27

son, his daughter, his third son, and last
of all his mother. Speaking Of the sim
ilarity of the two stories, DR.. lie Plon-
geon said that probably the life of Chaac'
Moll was the origin of the Egyptian my
thology and was known in the East be-
fore the submission of the Atlantis.
Ground plans of many of the buildings
were next shown to the reporter. These
were drawn in minute detail by DR.. and
Mrs. lie Plongeon foot by foot through
the underbrush which now covers them.
One plan shows the Priests Palace, which
contains 1O8 rooms and is surrounded by
broad terraces. Another shows the plan
of royal palace, and third gives an
idea of the tennis court, or ball ground
of the time, where the early Mayan play
ed before the princes and rulers.
"What other important discoveries did
you make?"
eve found traces of three distinct races
of people-giants, medium.sized people
and dwarfs. The statue of Chaac-Moll
and life-sized drawings of him, and others
that we found represents the first class,
and the mural paintings show the second
and third. We also found bas-reliefs OF
bearded men and buildings wherein
dwarfs hadlived. These houses were of
limestone, roughly built, and we know
that only dwarfs could havelived in them,
for the doorways are but three feet high
by eighteen inches wide, while inside they
were only three feet high and six feet
long. We visited the city of Nisucte on
the coast opposite the Isla Mugeres which
had only these kind of buildings"
"Did you find any Inscriptions to help
you in your work ?"
"We discovered that the people who in
habited these cities had regular system
of writing just as we have. In a build
ing called by the Indians 'Acabsib, mean
ing Mysterious writing we found a stone
bearing an inscription which I am now
engaged in decipheriug. I call it my
Rosetta stone"
can old Indian" interposed Nine. LIE
Plongeon, "told us of tradition which
has it that the inscription is prophecy
that at some future time string wolud
be stretched from city to city so that men
could speak together. This looks like q
prophecy of.the telephone or telegraph,
SO have rechristened the building and
taken from Maya grammar another word
which I think equally applicable, name
ly, 'Alcabsid,' meaning to write IN hur-
ry.'"
"Have you found anything as far as
Won have gone in the translation of the
Inscription which tends 10 corroborate
this legend?"
'"That I am not at liberty to say at pres
eut. The study of the hieroglyphics has
really been the hardest part of the work.
Some gentlemen have said that they deci-
phered them by the aid of the Landa key,
but it cannot be so, RS the inscription on
my Rosetta stone contains many forms
which Landa does not give and which
have no similarity to any forms in other
languages. I may say, however, that the
Maya language contains letters and words
which are used in all the known early Ian
guages, and these aroused in the inscrip.
tion."
DR.. lie Plongcon then, by the aid of a
dictionary and his own method, read q
portion of the "Alcabsid," and afterwards
said: at was this method and this
knowledge of the Maya characters, which
I can safely say are known to no other
people than myself and Mrs. LIE Plongeon,
that helped me to find out where Chaac.
Moll was buried"
"Did you ever hear any legend of the
origin of these cities ?" asked the repor.
ter of Madame LIE Plongeon.
"Whenever l asked the Indians who
built the cities their answer was always
they were built by the Aluxob,' meaning
the dwarf race. They also say that they
see the dwarfs sometimes, that they come
and knock on the tables and doors. Their
alleged appearance is not looked upon
with superstition, as they are notsupposed
to do any good or harm. The Indians
also say they see them on the plaZas, and
that they look like small people with
large hats"
DR.. LIE Plongeon, at the conclusion OF
the interview, said that he was certain
more important traces ofan older ciyiliza-
ton than those brought to light in the
Eastern Hemisphere will be found in Yu-
catan, but that the Investigations will be
fraught with great danger, owing to the
revolutionary tendencies of the people.
He agrees with Senor Perez, whose views
were printed in the World yesterday,
that Indians are susceptible of higher
civilization ifproperly managed.-N Y.
World, May 10.