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

| son, MS Caughter, his ...fd son. and Iasl
Of ell his mother. Speaking of the sim
Iilsrisy Of tho,two stories, DR.. LIE Plon.
tgeQi said that probably the life Of Chaac.
Moll was Tho origin oftie Egyptian my.
thoiogy and was known In the Fast 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 DIR. and
Mrs. Piongeon foot by foot through
the underbrush which now covers them.
| One plan shows the Priests Palace, which
eonsaing 108 rooms and 10 e@EF1nnded by
/ broadaterraces.@ Anothershows the plan
of royal palace, and third gives an
idea of the tennis court, or ball ground
Of the time, whore the early Mayan play
ed before the princes and rulers.
What other impo ant discoveries did
you mekh?n
eve found traces Of fthree distinct races
of peop)e-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 mur9! paintings show the second
Iand third, WC alec. found bas.reliefs OF
bearded men and buildings wherein
dwarfs hedlived.i These houses We're of
limo .one, roughly built, and we know
that only dwar(s could havelived in them,
for the doorNeys 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 70 help
you In your work"
I'VE discovered that the people who in.
habited these cities had regular System
OF whiting just as we have. In n build
ing called by the Indians 'Aeabsib,' mean
ing Mysterious writing we found stone
Gearing an inscription which am now
engaged in deciphering. / call It nv
Rosetta stone"
"An old Indian" interposed Nine. lie
Plongeon, "told us of tradition which
has it, hat the, inscription is 4 prophecy
that at sotle lutare time stfi5g woIud
he stretched from city to city SO that men
could speak together. This looks like O
prophecy of.the telephone or telegraph.
50 ] have Fe6hristened the building and
taken from Maya grammar another word
which :hink equally applicable, name.
ly, .Alcahsid,' meaning TO write in hur-
"Have you found anything as fer as
you have gone in the translation of the
inscription which tends 10 corroborate
this legend?"
That lam not at liberty TO say at pres.
ent. The study of the hieroglyphics has
really been the hardest part of the work.
Some gentlemen have said that they deci.
pheEed them by che aid dof the. Landa key,
5us i caur0s &c SO, ss the inscription OF.
my Rosetta stono contains many forms
which Landa does not give and which
have no similarity to any forms in other
languages. l may say, however, that the
Maya language contains letters and words
which are used In all the known early Ian
gaages, and these AROUSED in thsinactip.3
tion."
DR.. LIE Plongcon then, by the aid of a
dictionary and his own method, read q
portion OF the "Aloahsid,p and afterwards
said: i"It was this method and this
knowledge of the Maya characters, which
can safely say are known TO no other
people than myselfand Mrs. Le Plongeon,
that helped me to find out where Chaac.
Moll was buried"
"Did you eyer hear any. legend Of the
origin Of these cities ?" asked the repor.
ter of Madame lie Plongeon.
whenever asked tho Indians who
built the cities their answer was al9ays
they were built by the Aluxob,' meaning
the dwarf race. They also say that they
see the dwarie sometimes, that they come
andknock on the tables and doors. Their
alleged appearance is not looked upon
with superstition, as they are notaupposed
TO do any good or harm. The Indians
also say they see them on the plezas, and
that they look like small people with
largo hats.'D
DR.. lie Plongeon, at the conclusion Of
the interview, said chat he was certain
more Important traces an older oiyilizs.
tion than those brought to light Id 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 tho people.
He agrees with Senor Perez, whose views
were printed in the ,IVorld yesterday,
that Indiats asa susceptible of higher
civilization ifproperly managed.-M Y
World, Nay 10.