The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-22
AWORED MYSTERY
Early Civilization of the Twin \ Continents of America.
HE SECRET OF THE PACIFIC.


 sssIs -s < Riddle still UnseIved ls kAe 0riain1 Y of the Ancient Toltecs, Azfecs. Mayas
 and ineas-The Enigma That Lurks ln Their Ruined Menuments.
 < 'The Secret of the Pacife'' is the tttie of a book which deals with one Of the great mysteries of the world ehe origin of the aborigines of the Amer ieas- The author-C. Reginald Knock. F. R. c. S.-answers his own ques=. don. What do we mean by the secret ef the PacIficT' thus:
 $sSet between the worlds mightiest oceans. the Pacific and the Atlantics lies that greatest of all islands. the twin continents of America. A great mystery still shrowds these twin con- t1nents. a riddle still unread. for whose solution the world mny be said to have waited 400 years. What as this mys- terys
 s~Hisfory will have us believe that until the end of the fifteenth century these great seas had roared defiant. un- crossed by man. with the exception. srudgingly admitted. Of some hadowy
 
 northmen from Europe. and that these great continents have been unyisited ever since the world began. Yet scat tered for thousands of miles through 9uf the foresfs and deserts of these twin continents are the remains of civ fiized empires which once aourished tbere-fhe ruined temples. palaces. pyramids and habitn tions of peoples and nations who rose. fell and rose again ages before the icaraveis of the vikings and the conquistadorea turned their prows toward the setting sun.
 What 1 have veufured to term the secret of the Pacific Is the mystery sur rounding the ancient civilization of the Americas. the homes of the Toitecs. tbs Azfecs. the Mayas. the Incas and t&elr predecessors. What wan their origin7 What was their connection with each other1 Hafhe afn9 Bflnk with thsp old wcrid7 Did they in old en times draw inspiration and knovvi- edge from Asia. Egypt. Hab ylon1 If not. and they sprauE 9dh6fasH &f5Hn their own soil and created their own culture. what are or were the condi- tons of their independent develop znent7
 -It has been my lot to traverse. at 1qast in part. those great re<iops cf North and South Ameffc4 f0FT1iuG tho western world which ayFe& ha yeg errp- neously termed .neW-tfte ancient world of America befere Gotamhqs,' My travels have taken me upon the traIfs of Cortes and Pizarro, trails which in some cases are almost as re- mote and difficult today aa they were when first traversed by the white man a cd the Andes.
 add other incursions through spaxea which will take ua from Mexico to Egypt. from Peru to Babylon. from the American shores to the strange islands of Poiyuesia- From those broad re- g1ons where the Toltec. the Aztec and the Inca 6ouriHhed we must aeek to gather up those threads wM9 Hch1 have conjectured lead to As1H & | FWhat are the monuments left by these ancient peoples. and what are the evidences of their civiiizationsf For 4.0OO miles or more they lie upon the western American littoral and Cor dslieras and seem to extend in isolated patches across the Pacific ocean in a nprthwest path bo Asia. like vast step psng stones between the old world and the new. Tn the rock ravines and s8orching mesas of Arizona and Cali- 1drnia. wiidernesses whose trails were fist mapped out by the bones of hardy exnlorers. are the abandouedS zhahita- tio6s of the cliH dweIlersv s.s
 ~Un the hiRh slopes and tabIeIands of Mexico are strange pyramids and myEters6aai courts zs a1sds quatrahfIes wfths earvm9 Aafls ab6uautnesn, "a puz1ies s5 thek asezz8ltsfs In the dense traple f6feMB sf Ytcat8nsare the scuIpz eured zfMead des aof aIAees. and pprMGnsd-. Rennpses45f eEeeedln sBeanty and in-- ReDdItYs fuiHesd aafad- a Ba ffdof1ed or sur-s rosns9ea kere &fha .fi1eses by 7taie wattle. nuts Of half ga vzxs 4nd4anG q sszei .In CentrAEs AnaeR4eae seuTpfnred ntefae sof great BeaHty and pseuiiartty protrude stranKesy sfrsfn fhe jungle. while far away below the equator. along fheseedsc hing coast line of Peru and anid ztlea bisakv tabIelands and SHOW crowned ranges of the Andes. are cuTfB1xss<ly sErouEhe fsmples and ina- pregnabie fortreNses. which could only hawai- hsen nezfmxh iodeds ftu7er the naah- datasy5g Fs1thlems new world paEaraohBr or drvout American 9oIomons. eA .Tn the Mexican desserts and by the waters of the mysterious Lake Titica- ca of the 4neasath esn god and the moou god held sway and centuries s90 unnusnteFed "a aeient wershfpers raised great 4efnp1es to the .unknoTvn God. Deepening the mystery still. there arise strange and grim upon solitary sea gsrt Pacific islands in the track of <lfe Reft5ng atsn colossal Images and fortresees whese origin no man can conJerfdre.T Here fn brief, are the chapters. written in stone. &ofaiaomez grpae ana perhaps sunfveFsalS history-sa hjstopS which 70 far we have not been ,xs < Ry.as,sFs f,ns sv1 aAEsu rsa,s ,