The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-05
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 WiTH MANY MYSTERY T0M8S
Stone Images of Kings Scat. tered About Small
 Islands.

tOn about --~ IEraHtL45, the Ming Tombs and ,--~zn other monumenLs to peoples log Jhee gone, but tnes ancient vtrnCr- We hear 50 much about are ~r .n. uaiuiluds u. tu earth. the characters on .hew are de- eirEcrabre 70 that We know .a d E--s- araI way why they were 1aaa and by whom and within short distances of auow are millions of people like the ancient Builders ut these monuments.
 Scattered about uu .uy islands ...auHhaut the Pacific Ocean. how ...r. .lolsru4s Of rH.s from amy where so tna. their silence and L#9- .uu arc intensified .n.H#aH0Ia.a, " tN.Ir mystery ru.a" -au.r.uys- ..ug because .nar. .r. a1 legends and .u mon an,. .N ..a.uaar a. .r.srip- sIrus upon .n.H.. .r. monuments lo peoples .r. .-. regarded 1. lu.l. nts Hy us. Their location u- these isl- .lds. ta.r ....usE which shows .n3t aou..r..- thousands ul people rfr.f and ..-U.. fl tE. immediate ....u .s .r. ....r survival -hru1-H thc .... r... .-H when .Hn people .. ..a r. u u.-. 0uer...la and highly .....r.l t1 rl. nrozeu. day when Che ...u.a ah.u. .u.u ar. ..s.. ta-.-au. ...| H.n.n..... ..srr.r..H H.h. them ....rr. u.unur. ..u-.n...
 H.s.ar I...t seldom mentioned '. nl... ...n..... .r nur.. .u.u tna ..EH news ....u.. #fL.r rho HI--e ns thr rHIEHrf Islands news was ..nf ru tU. H'..H world -nr. Y WIS n. EHat0r I.arf t-lr E.a Srrr. ".nr Tatf .n Ir..n su-uIg ol meat .H1 some #mu Inter rnn German ra.E- .- prtnr Efto' Friedrich rrudnI there f. put tfty Er..ah auI French sailors ashore.
 The German shippers certainly en- .rsG a splendid isolation dlrins tEose trius for Eas.er Island is our fu the Pacific NceHn. 5000 miles from Chile. the country t5 which + he- Iruzs. Inaswu.h as Chilean naars visit tho island only once year. .urro was very IEt-e dHnsar of any ouc's being about Co bother rhe visit ing ships The nearest of the other islands arc 1000 miles away. Just why Easter Island should exist at all may well be asked. but # is not for its isolation alone that it ls one or -ra worlds wuudo-s-.t is the great number of giant stone images scat tered about the island that attract at tentiou-
 These are from twelve feet to twenty feet high. ana one of oNcep- rionaI size ie thirtv-rh-ee feet high. They are all representative or human forms and many of them wear crowns carved out of red lava rock. The crowns are about five feet high. There must have been many work CTS to produce them, for they are ranged pretty well all over the island upon great stone shelves faced with paved terraces Evidently they were built in the stone guarries, for dozens oS such statues, finished and uudnsh- c1. are found in these holes.
 One uncoup'ated s.atue is sixty eight feet hizh-stiU down in the quarry. Who built them? How were they moved when finished? Why should SD isolated an island have been so tcnsoIy populated? These arc questions science would like some one to answer.
 About 400 miles southwest of our Samoan Island are the Tonga, or Friendly Islands Here too are ancient relies but very modern in comparison to tho images found on Faster Island. These features Of the Tonga Islands are found on the Is- land of TouEatabu at Mua and are called 'aan=is' by the natives. VFe .lu them the tombs of the ancient T.H=Hn kings. It must take a lot to hold TonEan royalty down. for these structures arc of coral blocks form ing a rectangular enclosure about 30 .r 90 feet. The side walls arc made uf two layers of these coral blocks -uIcudidIy fitted together. These blocks of course vary in siao but one which stands apart from ono of the enclosures measures twuuty#uUe feet in -ength. four feet in width and five feet fin height. Certain it is that the TouEaus of today cannot move such great weights
 The anCleut TonEaus must have had occasion to erect a victory arch" at ono time or another. for not far from these tombs of royalty is found an arch made Of two gigantic stone upri-hts which support another elrantic stour for cross member carefully mor.taod into place. The Tougaus made certain that thnir vic tory arch woulj hold together for rhn safe passage of their Twcuty-S Sew cuth Division. Some authorities claim that this particular arch was not made by the Tongans at all, but by their predecessors in the islands. Perhaps so. but whoever the people were who set up this arch they pos sessed mechanical ability, for the up- rights are sixteen feet high, twelve feet W ltlN ana i've feet litIs Ns anu tAtd stone across the top is only slightly smaller in thickness.
 Om the coast of Queensland. Aus tralia. are the New Iebrides Islands, which some scientists believe were once occupied by the Spanish, for a little way from St. FIIp's Bay evt- dences of such occupation have been dug into from time 10 time. along with certain other ruins. which from 4no little examination they have had indicate an even more remote occu- raucy.
 Up there in Java is the great tenn p1c of Bo~obodoor, temple of the many Budhas, wh ch was Uncarthed some years ago, and is known to have been built in the fifth century, and right near 1t is the lesser temple of Nondoet. Further north, in the Caroline Islands are the ruins of an ancient city whose streets were water ways just as those of Venice are to- Cay. So when visits arc made to these virgin islands and one feels all most like a diseovcre~ of new lands it IS well to remember that there is