New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-06
THERE WERE GIANTS ~ THOSE DAYS"
SOMETHING MORE THAN TRAD1TTON-ENOR-
MOr-S SKULLS FOUND IN An ANCIENT YUCCA
T,N rrNTTCRY AND ELSEWHERE.

MOrS SKULLS FOUND IN An ANCIENT YtCA-
TAN CEMETERY AND ELSEWHERE.
Phcncmcnally big men and women have occasion
ally apncarcd In various parts Of the earth ana sew
cr,l nations possess traditions OF gigantic people
having nj one time inhabited their lands. Even tue
Iibc tells Us something about giants. But skulls OF
unusual size as we'll other bones were really aug
w at Pitcairn Island by officers OF the eSpd''ioh
under Captain l:chy. In the early part OF this cen
tirv The French traveller and writer. Jean oe
Dc,7ri1ux when residing in the Canary Islands. was
much pleased a procuring some mumme' 81 'he pH
,uanchcS. u man and two women. prrSerN'u d. Wv
Egyptians used 10 preserve their dead Inc ma"
was of gigantic stature" he SAYS. which Is III per
feet conformity with all tradition relating to the
ancient Atlaneans. The women had long black hair'
MATTED with straps OF leather painted red or S"'h'
Their dress was plated In front; their breast GOV.
cred with a Kind OF short zarape.' Inc Straps VI
their sandals were painted red ana ornamented WIN
small pieces Of o,sidian beautifully wrought lie
dres. Of the man consisted Of tunic and mantle
fed nm on the chest In knot. NJ. Dcspruux was
delrlted Inter ON TO find that in the high Andes ~
PERU tho women were sttircd Just as his mumnles
had been and that their headgear and mode OF
dressing the hair were Identical
he American continent seems to have been the
,,,c. whore big mcn aboundeL. for here are found
ro,v remains Of human beings much larger than
any ~ f.. present inhabitants. At Chancai, thirV
miles north Of Inn Peru. very large h"niah sN'"S
v..r. dug MP only few years ago pv Dr' ie ''""
g.on Others have been unearthN on Inc iS''""
-, Pima I'm the Gulf OF Guayaquil, at the entrance
=, thc Guuyaqul River Jesuit father haineu
Anita OLIVIA wrote an ancient history Of Peru uc'
t,,ed bv an old arch've keeper. Onlpp" Cam"yoc
pr,,,on oiva's work exists only In manuS rp'
and Is I'm ,he British Museum. London but inc WHIT
has 4 COPY OF H. DIVA says 'ha' r"n' ~ "' y"
th. oppo,ir coast. was formerly Peop"" u, s''
uho had come from Central America. IN 'he WIZ"
- y,r,,. we read tlr-I they were ms bad rs 'h'y
yor, liz G, that they bccam" terror to all the
,n,t,o,t. Those tall fellows had their
,,.hld. p,rtirilarly at the Island Puma ana NJ
paint santa Elena. GuayaqnIl som" OF 'he'r "or"S
can We, lo seen I'm tho-' places In the shape ol 'u
mon so s,on, and adobe walls and more espce'ahy III
t, great wells which they dug TO supply themselves
,.n ,yo,er The career Of those bad big people was
n,Iy brought 10 a close by some electrical PIE
n.r,.n, for tradition SAYS that the gods destroyed
,h.u with fire from heaven.
In the north part OF Mexico few years "so
bum,n rrmalns uncarhcd from wclimade s'o"e
,ombs The skeletons were nearly nine reet 'ohs'
In .optnern Mexico the lucatan peninsula s"Nns 20
t Loo, ot one time quite a favorite residence OF
= rac, NJ peope about nine feet high. ON our first
eli +, ., that country before had been twelve hours
an shore the Inhabitants OF ProgresO mehone" l" "'
that giants had once lived there. Don f'r"'"
Dop,r,o one Of the first settlers In that town, re-
s,.ctcd and Trustworthy. accompanied us to al
inc, 4, his property and build his house. ~"
,orn,cd ont vr,gcs Of a mound which on lis west
side had had stone steps leading TO the summit, !"
tho foot them. each side. were -FOUR sep"'o'r's
I'm n line partly underground. Thcy cohsS'eu vi
,,vo hard limestone urnS about tarre feet square,
nloced mouth TO mouth and Joined with cement. Inc
lower one had hole in the bottom Tor the escape
- gos.s generated by decomposition. Nothing, not
even dust remained In them. which would snow 'na'
those stone collins were very anient' 10 Tue
student their discovery is deeply Interesting, Tor 'he
70, son that they were exactly Hike some found at
NughI.r I'm the lower plains OF Chaldea, the Only
difference being that at Mughier the conns were
made Of clay instead OF stone, BY the position OF
those at Progreso we infer that the bodies were
IN many parts Of America II they were placed thus
and yet needed height OF six feet tnev wore aer
iaIny very biz bodies. In various parts OF the sane
cemetery Don Fcrmin and others dug mp e3nS,u-
cradle number of leraco'la lars containing SKULLS rs
which the old gentleman assured US were m, WA q,
big as his own head. We regretted that he had not
fr sufficiently interested TO keep y, least one snnd
Pieces OF large bones but they cr''mbed IN our
were frequently told Of places where giants ZONES
had been s The s .rG g I rea 81
be- regarded the work of very big ana nnno on.h
Each step !" n nr oT IS nsS Of ordinary
STATURE s the stairway is i5G wide In one part
on" Of eacH total Of thirty instead eighteen
as n people Of medium siz" had lived there al ,ne
same time, or perhaps a''r, anu ,S ~, Tho
ancient structures not only large skulls have been
dug from the ground but also tiba ana other bones,
all exceedingly large. From the umc OF W SP",s,
conquest such remains have now and then peeh
brought TO light In the Peninsula. Father Cogoliuuo
and Diego de Landa second Rshep OF lnatan. wrote
works about that country and lis people, ana Do."
testify 10 the discovery of gigantic human oonr DOM,
Corojludo whose work l. the most complete, Snys
that in i547 on the high road OF Campschs il is
Scpuchre opened; II was formed q. sn' were
piaced one above the other. ana therein WI.
shunan remains OF formidable sizs, Witt .nt, 's s
| threc Iarc
poried on three hollow balls that served as ner';
There was also Of black stone ,n s 10 frag-
Tho natives we're ordered to break the bones ~ r
mcnts but they refused to lay hnsrr ~" III" ,bem TO
in the grave declaring that 1t was iorp @,ar jan de
meddle with such things and so us si'''' '
Carrion himself destroyed the renl a omonp tho
Cnr OF the supcrstitlons now iance Of the big
natives would seem TO be ren,nis.em'e yr.uan,cb
people that formerly dwclt in fuca.an, hghw"rs
Is phantom giant suppose 70 nedsstrans and trip
them up nv standing astride stretching o"' Mo 'e''
from one side Of the road 10 me I liz pr ONGEON