Evening star., 1942-02-22
Lost Moyos With Legend Of World War
Found Deep in Mexico by u. S. Couple
BY Wide World News.

By Wide World News.
SANTA ANA, Calf. Feb. al
This is a tale about some little men
and little women who haven't heard
about the war.
They have never heard Of Hitler
or Hirohito, of Germany or Japan
or even the United States.
For hundreds of years they have
lived in the jungles of the For
hidden Land" of virtually unexplored
Chiapas, Mexico.
There, where it rains every day
and the great trees drip water con-
tinuously. live the last Of the Mayas
who fed before the conquest OF
Cortez.
That was the last war of which
they knew. But carefully guarded
In their "lost city" is the golden L.
brary which told them of a great
war to come.
When, last fall. the Mayas had
their first visitors in a long, long
time, the callers, Dana and Ginger
Lamb of Santa Ana, explorers Of
IS years jungle experience, found
evidence of previous expedition
that did not return" &
Swing Through the Trees.
That was one of their several
frightS in the weeks they spent with
the little people who still use bows
and arrows and of necessity, in the
thick Jungle, often have to travel
Tarzanlike through the trees.
Two years of preparation, includ-
ing exploration from the air, had
passed before Dana's and Ginger's
Mexican-government-sponsored ex-
pedition saw this first member OF
the lost tribe last fall.
The Lambs had left the third and
innermost Of their string of camps
and were looking for pass in the
high mountains.
Then they saw 'Kentin."
The long-haired little figure was
perched in tree hunting monkeys
with bow and arrow.
For three days the Lambs left
gifts at the foot of the tree. Some
times Kentin was perched in his
tree watching. sometimes he was
absent. But always the next day
the gifts were gone.
On the fourth day when the rain
fall was heavier than usual, Dana
struck a fire from tinder.
Fire Evokes Cackling Laugh.
A cackle of laughter from above
greeted the flame that leaped up.
The Lambs saw Kentin climbing
monkeylike down a nearby tree.
He greeted them. laughing and
jabbering. Then he placed the
knuckles of his left hand against
their hearts.
This gesture of friendship was
followed by signs to indicate he
wanted them to return next day
at the same time-noon.
The young couple needed no
urging.
Next noon Kentin brought with
him tine fiercest visaged savage"
the Lambs had ever seen.
He was Chan-Kin, chief of the
tribe. His hair was longer than
Kentin's. He had narrow. firm
mouth, sharp nose and quick eyes.
He wore a feather in his nose.
There were more gifts from the
Lambs. Another tinder fire was
made. During the afternoon they
taught the two savages how to make
deer traps.
The following day the Lambs set
of after the Mayas to visit their
village. They crossed the mountain
range, down into great valley, and
into the lost city area.
A Wide-open Town.
But it was not the lost city they
were permitted to see. Instead, be-
fore them was a village scattered
over several miles. Each family
lived about a mile away from its
nearest neighbor.
The Lambs made camp in a
clearing near Chan-Kin's house and
settled down to win the friendship
of their hosts.
Dana taught them new ways to
make traps for fish and game, a
better way to tan hides. His wife
began to teach the women first aid,
sanitation, weaving and even how
to knit.
In turn the Mayas cared for the
Lambs when they fell i'll of malaria.
From their vast knowledge of native
medicants they treated the explorers
for insect bites.
Wrote Dana:
The country we'll deserves the
sinister name of the Forbidden
Land everything is wet and
mouldy. There are bugs by the mil
lions. Mud. bugs and rain"
Bit by bit the Lambs learned
snatches of Maya legendry:
Lost City at Shrine.
There was indeed a lost city. On
certain days of the year the Mayas
went there to worship. Only those
could go who possessed three of the
little 1gurlne gods bestowed from
time to time on members of the
tribe.
Somewhere there was falls that
Dana Lamb understood must rival
Niagara.
They heard of the great things
of the old ones" which the explorers
assumed is the library of writings
legendarily inscribed on sheets of
solid gold.
They learned that the Maya re-
Igion was remarkably like Chris
tianity, encompassing teachings of
"the great flood and the Son of
God"
AS they went about their daily
activities, Ginger Lamb took pic
lures of them, but the little men
and women did not know what a
camera was and thought Ginger
was blessing them with some sort
of god.
Sinister Memories Recur.