Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-13
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aEsERFI.D Is STONE.
ApFA PREHISTORIC PEoprp-
i--'-SA o. THE MYSTERIES Of
iTETE sOUrIf SEAS. Cd.

o. ii-'-SA o. THE MYSTERIES or
: iVITE s0Uuf SEAS. I'd.
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Tue Carolina SLAMS. which 49,.
- -. !. $3.50 snizei Is he'oBgine -
- - LS,-sousA tn Germans fri,,I -
~. : r77sS'O 4 Few years ago, fora
~ ,4-"-';is largest archipelsgoes 81
- Isiic. covering = sca srs.e "
-,-.ore thlH 300 miles, aud cyrsyris-
Ing sves 5l1 separate fragtcees o.
land. ermc u these isleis ase mere
frcss. many are uninhibisel auG a
tsssF ags5very poqui0ss. Excepting
those fhe eastern euI % the chain
and The large stand 81 Zap a; the
Wesleru tnl, l!iey haze been rarely.
[ sou5e 81 them uever, Nisitel ~
wuiifmsa, alltsI In the duhirds
lofgl HuI ''aeacl-combers.'s VIA
ihc sl1sIauuss, the Giibert and Mar
-hai Stands, lhg Caroiines make up
that sfctica OF ihc Pacific which Is
Known, 90 g'-rgSapteH rs Micro
utsia,
ku,aic, SOM times called Strong
isiau j. about nly NILS Ia cir
eUusleFerce; Is VI i-ssiliir formation:
has \ 'arse extent 10 high ground
aud i'9esap' ts1 exceiientlla, 5ors,
The .ec9. aa- Tei lieliy iudustfi-
Gus an, l--se. h.e-fgg SJuth Sea
ISLAM &ri Llay have = king u
f-ir- r tGrWp. Trey tclong, 20 ~ az.
ia -. =, ~ rs % . Sac Ian. .ict:
~. travellers have ll.isfcl .lai
/ Tie. -teu csfati. IL . higher civil
izlauF ,aaH Zoe avrrs-e p1lyucsian.
IN Is ry,naEs!5.s that The chi -iseJln-
muaiCiic ty aisus I'd speech not
lunielstoot tv tie tphmon people.
4ne isiand l. coveted Is massive
! ruiIe 81 very aneieu! date, Esriy
/ voylge-s usgI o. sIprleg that these
I were the vork nfthc old > auish
bss,suerr-; bus ua has b-eu sh0s "a
4 10 h. impqss:uis, alaIt from the
i 5siI. 10 As1el gfcat-r az. The
-aii., bar, iu many eIsts.. tbe out
i iuta % lurtIc1ti1Us. they are
I sstHgs ~ a.rl. measuring eight
aHs. ten feet iI ills.il. t4larel uiau
-. sitf-. lufs- rtunss ar, % =
III FleHi geological gIsuel-r Gum
.1ly older -tr.ls found an the
isisnd. Therefore thcy must have
teen IniDGr.ei asI sJ.ue u the
higells AZ -erer iouh,g the size
au1ve stated. -iJut. % such a.
Z meu1ious g'cFe heyeni the poxets %
tae Spanish tuc lurCr-, either tr
ccuvry by their gus-ei-, or a. cTgef
iHn luiiiiug- with the manual
laluT they Possessed. the trans
ipoftingand ertc dng n these massive
books requirlj mechanical =pnli-
aH-e, cl e1-t-. lrIi'.lfs strength an-i
Ing -nu.,y, a. -Jcl appliances the
t.5fauianl8 had not. fhs general
i-i,i-a Of lle Lsi.lius when can still
POS tno-i reveals . design ~ srs,t
,nie,igerCe.
! .Asgcu-'an Island. now usually
called fc1are. g. larger thar Rus t.
ami 81 uIr 50 hitly, although geo
logically or ihu l1me formation. u
I a., 50 considerable area ui level
! 2gJuud, ~ ul--i t..s Es-- fcr;iIe in
II ths whole -IUar. sui &C nrs uuweT-
p. ylE Iuc fflIus, q wei Es lHFyt
I -gr hEr'UIs. The Inhabitants
~ 'erarsuiui the -IoT,s having
] -VVe-ilols u1ell .f the Interior
I and they aIe said % number about
4 sDl. tuhse kusair. Instead OF
7 being under one king, the rtople are
= divilli gutrT ,ile .lir ~ i've indie
y pendent l-feia.
q On thi- i-hLI ,SE. similar Fuius
D. those rl Eu-aic. 'li much lar-cT
On ih- shore ~ 1uc creek, fgr in
stance, there stiff remains a massive
7 sail Tires nuu.i-gG feet lon. auI
fthiT'E five fl,- Ei.h. 10 j. built Of
fgHg.I Is-a die rocks 800 i.-@ f1rm of
I p.isnis, aud El- q gateway opening
on "a the creek supported On csOr
fmsIs htssitis columns. Passing
FtHT1ugh iiiis Eai.say. q large cJurt
! g. reached, iIria-ai- ny walls thirty
! feet Ia heigl- aud a.i around The
liuutr waii N ihi, court thcfg is n
Z rli,cl terrace, d sht feet high anr
twelve feet wide. 10 share thu
court j. s4ua.p aHi LIS evidently
I been SUB iiviI-i into -ircc f4ris Toy
The low walls wlni-s north auc
{ south. In she centre OF each o,
th-s. divisions There is ,ll-ci
cham n fourteen fr' ssiggg. tuiu
Z ul bls5lu cJiIm.s 1uJ T10fei over.
2 rhc outer walls rrr twenty feet
7 thir.. 90 tue ia-s AMI eight feet
+ 90 ti- stop, ara E-s %. frs stones
i g=-i ~ 70 comp t.au l.r tEyaty-
I Use feet in length sud eight feet H.
7 eircumt, renee.
i All .he Concentrated intelligence
I u 81 Sac Caroline islfuitrs ~ to
I lay uid u1i devise q mc.hcd fot
! wing OF ri-lag rich UlIgmJu-
4 G-l.-ss; aud an lLg machinery a;
/ the command l- ti'e early Spanish
I ulyi s-.grs elu.3 not have managed
I enc az them.
I - much Tor the Caiulires, and
now, II We traverse some icw thou
and miles Of oc.nu % the very
eastern out -kists % Polynesia. We
shall fad something even more
mysieH u. 10 g. The iitIe f.
Land cllied flster island. which J.
barely ten miles long ly four miles
I broaJ. which hls no trpUs~n0 run
ming water, aud voFy little about il
I q attract settlers. IL j. Il volvauic
origin, and one or ;he extinct crlteu,
! Is oyer 1000 feet high
Vet this physically embarrassing
'sl1ui, peUiiCi ~ PClyutsians Of
I the iair iype, su-h as aie found ~
.hr Society Islands, Is tie greatest
mystery OF the Pacific. Il Il COW
rcd with remains q s1me prehis-
efie people % whom every record
] Tut list rvea'iu stone seems %
have vanished.
{ AZ the s1giuwe=t end q This little
Island ihUiu are o. he found the
ruins u nearly 2 hundred stone
houses, built in rerIisr lines ami
facing The SEES. The walls 0f thc..
house, are Eve feet thick and over
FIVE fees high. luiit % LAYERS Of Hat
-t0Hosl anl. iiGe1 ifsiG6 with fiat
Stats. Internally the houses meas
uTe all1ut forty fcet long hy thirteen
fect vide. ami they afe rooted over
with .slaLS overlapping like tiles,
the inside walk are tainted in three
y1igFs-rei.,blacs 81 Nhite-with
figures of blEd- al.I mystic beasts I
and faces ana gs3,neirica! figures /
In Que cf the.u houses was fCuui a 4
curious si0sa statue eight feet high I
and weighing aigpi four tons. which I
Is nolF tie British Museum.
Tie sea cliffs nrat' This ancient
settlement aTs carved into grCtesque
shapes not unlike tie paintings on
the walls, and tie cuIst i maFkvd
wiii, hundreds 10 these strange
sculptures.
Again, on each heailand OF the
island there Is an enormous stone
platform, huiii % hewn blocks Of
greJt sise, laed togcthe. without
cement They are bnilt on slol,-
ing grognd, Presenting on the sea-
Esnl slice g wallace twenty or
thirty feet ligl aud two or thoce
hundred feet long, and on the
iandwani side wall n about three
feet IN height rising from a level Z
terrace.
ghtse platforms have evidently