The Republican journal., 1896-07-02

.. tb9 Islands Of C0zumel and MujereS.
ua9f Of C0rleZ and COrdOva. TiXkOhob

! lrlg wake Of Corlez and CordOva. TixkoAob
"a VI a, cemetery
''' ureSpondence of The Journal. ]
,'f -.-, week in Yucatan was a busy
.m- rs several short excursions.
.rI. cruise around the north
= .a1u of the peninsula, in one of
... Ya~.ers that ply the Gulf.
". Iom Progreso, the port of
,se stood upon the very spot
y ...-e men first landed Oh this con-
..-e enturies and a quarter ago.
.r. sky and sandy shore and distant
q.s, a the same-yet how changed
hose early tourists-clad in
....s armor and weighted with
.. RE-. aherd, lance and arQuebus,
eed nailed to a crucilix, and a
.f banner floating over galleons
undered the fire god' so
uc lndians-represente an
~derS and a navy that then
our merry little party, Of
Which had no place among
lie earth till POO years later
Wesque but more comfort
1l the Goth century. with no
..Ult impedimenta than came
haSkntS-llnicSS we include
..l : said to be mlghtier than
... nn Of warfare.
.... east from Progreso, we
.-. The open sea into what is
: the ucatecan channel,
I... g., The Mexican Gulf With the
aud separates Cuba from the
Tie harbors are few along
rs. pied coasts and for many
is little to tempt landing.
. Wuite-capped pillows stretch
horzon, with a monotonous
beach on one side, broken
dark patches of forest, with
.. .. here a rugged mound, or
-nn arglown with verdure. indi-
a- ste of some prehistoric city.
hefore the conquest, Yucatan
- peen much more populous than
~ n harney states that he found
u .sy covered with ruins from end
ephcns says that he visited II
4 o., most of which were entirely
.sB white men before his coming,
,4 people of Yucatan, and that
titles he found the most re-
s.au eios of wealth and architecture
need civilization. Baldwin, in
mt America, tells us that near
principal ruins are traces of
constructed artificial lakes,
u~ of which We're made of fiat
Be ia cement, several layers deep.
IS .4e the graded level of the
made very smooth.
va = NtLiNt 'oIttfIttlS Will 10
a. unly 70 more ruins have been
Io st, while the whole vast in
literal terra incognita,
readers realize that some of
ndeIful relics Of antiquity on
Tug earth lie within a week
m New York? Why do arch
4Sue their quest on the other
lobe, when at our very doors
more curious than those OF
Here ulaneum, older and
iH- u those Of the Aztecs in Mex
.H.. "a uc3s in Peru? AS the state OF
I I~ never been thoroughly sur
.- -lDa and present population are
work On the part of the Mex
lies Measured around its
uusula is 80 miles long, by
f'i but of its interior topog-
is known. The Rio Hondo
ndary between it and Belize.
'|4ss streams flow into the
a and beyond the dense for
-.-"ate tie coasts a great central
--el by ridge of unknown
cen the forest belt and the
s ndulating tracts of some
'lere corn, tobacco, rice and
crown and cattle raised in
t-Mh.0- As to furnish considerable
ue> and salted meats. next in
t Of the fibre industry. We
/. 4n hour OF two at lalahau, an
SIC port. but celebrated in Mex
w 4f. as a resort of the old time
Aer It's harbor commands wide
"- and down the Gulf, SO that
esst passing from Cuba and the
'e4-'' Nam could be critically studied
-a- stance by those predatory gem
81 OF whom, it is said, were
Ff4p- zens' of Yalahau and own
''-' Aatations in the neighborhood.
'' -."-t insists of a single struggling
ale stalk cottages, elevated
'es urrve tide water-both the town
'"d'p behind it being completely
'4'4 H'rl groves of palm and cocoa
~ to great extent from COM
-' '.ne with the outer world and con-
'' the interior only by danger
% @10 l-i'-ome roads, the little hamlet
a> dependent as separate Re-
1me was when golden doub-
t'e more plentiful in Yalahau
" 't"es are now, for the piratical
'D- "e'e Proverbially prodigal and
heir iIl-gotten gains in gam