Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-28
4 WORLD MYSTERY
Early Civilization Of the TWIN
Continents Of America.
the SECRET or rHE PACIFIC.

TINE SECkEI Of HE PAClFC.
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A fiddle Still Unseivsd 10 me Origin
Of The Ancient reitses. AstSes. Mayas
md lness-rhs Enigma That Lsrks
IN Their Ruined Monuments. So
"The Secret ~ The Pacific" Is the
title a. i book which deals With one
-of The great mysteries Of the world.
the origin o. the nborisines ofthc Amer
lens. The author--C. Reginald EnOcE.
f. X. G. S.-answers his own Ques.
ton. What do we mean by the secret
OF the Paciic:" thus: q,
''Set between the worlds mightiest
oceaus, the Pncif,c and the Atlantic.
Hes that greatest Of all islands. tho
twin continents OF America. A great
mystery still shrouds these twin con-
tinents. n riddle still unread. for whose
solution the world may be said to have
waited 100 years. What Is this ihy6.
terry?
History will have US believe that
nuiil the end OF the fifteenth century
these great seas had roarcd defiant. ur,-
crossed by man, with the exception.
Srudgingly admitted, OF some shadowy
north,nen from Europe. and that these
great continents have been unvisited
ever since The world began. Yet scat
tered for thousands Of miles through
out The forests and deserts OF these
twin continents are the remains OF civ
llized empires which ouce flourisheti
thcre-tbe ruined temples. palaces,
pyramids and Indications Of peoples
and nations who rose. fell and rose
again ages before the caravels Of the
vikings and the con1nistadores turned
their prows toward the setting sun.
"What | have ventured to term the
secret OF the Pacific is the mystery sur
rounding the ancient civilization OF the
Americas, the homes Of the Toltecs.
the AztecS. the Mayas. the IncaS and
their predecessors. What was their
origin? What was their connection
with each other? Had they any link
With the old world? Did they in old.
en- times draw inspiration and knowl-
edge from Asia. Egypt. Babylon? II
not. and they spranE nnaided from
their own soil and created their own
culture. what are or were the cOndl.
lions OF their independent develop
ment?
1T has been my lot to traverse. at
least in part. those great regions OF
North and South America forming the
western world which we have erro:
neonsly termed 'new'-the ancient
world Of America before Columbus.
My travels have taken me upon the
trails Of Cortes and P!zarro. trails
which In some cases are almost as re.
mote and difficult today a. they were
when first traversed by the white man
from Europe and the horse 6rst ascend.
ID the Andes. Liz
.'But to these journeyings we must
add other incurslons through space
ind time. both real and conjectural.
which will take us. from Mexico to
Egypt. from Peru to Babylon. from the
American shores to the strange islands
II Polynesia. FROM those, broad Re:
lions where the Toltec. the Aztec and
thc Inca tiourished we must seek to
gather up those threads which some
aave coDjecturcd lead oAsia. "a :.
a"What are the monuments LETT "
shese ancient peoples. and what are
:he evidences Of their civilizations?
For 1000 miles or more they lie upon
he western American littoral and Cor
iilleras and seem to extend In Isolated
patches across the Pacific ocean Ia 4
northwest path TO Asia. like vast step
sing stones between the old world and
he new. In the rock ravines and
,corching inesas Of Arizona and Cali
;ornia. wildcynesses whose trails were
irst mapped ont by the bones Of hardy
explorers. are the abandoned habtta-
ions Of the cliff jewellers. IA, l.
ION the high slopes and tablelands
II Mexico are strdnge pyramids and
mysterious courts and quadranglcs.
with scarved stone halls about them, a
1vfzxle TO the behoIder. In the dense
ropic forests Of Yllcatan are the sculp-
ured facades 81 palaces and pyramid
:empies 81 exceeding beauty and m
;eDuity. ruined aud abandoned Or sur,
'onndcd here aud there sby the, waffle
11ts ,of hatf savage indians. q ,a,...,.,
I'm Central, America sculptufed
,telae 81 great beauty and peculiarly
prptrude strangely from the jungle.
While far away below tie equator.
liong the scofrhing coast line Of PER-,
ind 4mid the Bleak tabfeldnds ana
NOV crowned ranges OF the Andes.
ne cunningly wrought Temples and Til.
,,r'eegynitable f6fftressEs. which could only
lave been fasbioned under the n1an:
iAtes 1t ruthless new world ,phata6hs.
s. lddeytout American soloi6ons. ', s.s
I'm tie Mexican desserts and ~ tie
wsiiterf Of fhe mysterious, Lake Titich;
IA 81 the tncas the sun sod and the
moon god held sway. and centuries ago
I,nuumbered ancient worshiperg raised
great temples to the unknown Cod
Deepening the mystery stiii.5 there
itise strange ahd grim upon 'solitary