The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-16

Lac t.fTIGSpOluence OF | lie journal.
.p. AE. MEXICo, June 5, 1896.
a.t has heard of the "Mysterious
which tradition places somewhere
,.. re1on. The unexplored tropical
.oI5eh begins a few miles from the
lad covers two thirds of Cam
rsasco, Yucatan and Guatemala,
.,13lly pictured on the map as
--4 fountains, lakes and rivers,
Nity is as little known as the
africa. Deep in this wilderness,
.r tll-otf, unnamed tributary of
. ~inta, is hidden splendid city,
walls shine like silver in the
led 10y unconquered aborigi-
who yet worship the hideous
.ir aneestors-at least, SO the
and many sane and sensible
believed it, The Cure of
AIRED that he saw it with his
.- nm the tops of the mountains
mango, lin which he found
according to his somewhat
statement. The good padre
-ry interesting account of Ills
. but he admits that he had his
Long, and in it was a bottle Of
. Potent to relieve snake bites,
which may, perhaps, have as
sion. We are more interested
..,v that some OF our own adven-
untrymen, who have made this
study of years, believed in the
r.. city. stephens, Morelet,
t. Plongeon tried hard to find
m ser, being in the border of the
era~, was strongly tempted to ven
.-. rr in search of it, but was dis
,s.. m undertaking what, under the
...-.. noes, would have been madness.
person in the world claims TO
H.. lily sojourned within the aborig-
n and lived to tell the tale. This
(. > lln Pedro Valasquez, a Guate-
N Suchitepequezalto. How
nay he excused for any state
H. SIS ever wild, who halls from such
.a. u, suchitepequezalto, on the
sl at the name thereof got into
+. . He says that he accompanied
r - gentlemen from Baltimore,
!. . with several Campeche Indians
peeting in the wilderness in
r.r- Vi mines and India rubber, and
u -ss many hardships and hair
,. apes from monstrous serpents,
i. Auimals and skulking savages,
X .~..,s. he'd the Shining City, Accord
d. - account, the wonder is that
.s N allowed to enter at all; but
q he city they We're safe enough
hey showed no desire to de-
he first attempt to go away,
g. uud hand and foot and cor
ag .,u adjoining the temple. That
41 one of the Baltimorians
u. I'd On the great, blood stained
j SING sun, having the heart torn
Il. wing body and placed reeking,
.5 t.e dol Just as the sun sank be-
ia M -lg!zon. The others expected
ate, which was no doubt reserv-
I EN-, but during the night they
4 to effect an almost miraculous
"a MY Don Pedro, however, and
indians returned to civiliza-
ne rest persisted in the flight
' wilderness. Wild beasts and
-rt ms are not the greatest pelils
Zeal forest. Terrible tales are
mous serpents, which throw
i-H. rom the trees Upon their prey
7 ice of catapult, by one twist
-.. nous coils crushing the life out
a horseback, and swallowing
+ finals in the twinkling of an
worse than the giant boas are
ivOras de sangre, whose bite
.~ pto0d of man or beast to OoZe
A- pores of the skin until the
pens aptied and the victim dies from
|-aa.S and the tiny vipers, the exact
LIE leaves under which they lurk,
F-sa a- is certain death in the most
Fs7 form.
h travelling in Campeche pre-
Fe-> .v pleasures, however you may
PAX ran in the neighborhood of the
'lr' he Maya language the word
F4PeA IS the name of that demon
Faq,- u>ects which the Spaniards call
eaaa-. IN plain, unvarnished English
NJ wood louise. They are not
llA-'Wa the North, where they are
F0H@rafigely harmless but like all 9TH
lssiesous creatures their size and vi
'daNsae-s amazingly increased by near
L" jp ne equator. One may defend
Flls-t rom nominations, jaguars,
pa "pstuetors and tarantulas, but to be
4S Fanquished and put to rout by
' iefeat too inglorous for Christian
Sisuauen. They enter boldly ''where
Fpsc'' lear 10 tread and bury their whole
|ASl>aHg body under the cults before the
"lu 'an say Jack Robinson. And then
'e no remedy but to cut them out,
pm On a poultice and wait for the
f'"liels to be drawn out. Then there
small. innocent looking fly, Tor rath-
aHons upon millions of them),
a.-i The yinyin which comes Softlv