Sabattus High School - Yearbook (Sabattus, ME)

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Lost Civilization The lnterest in Central America lies in th past, not in the present In about th flfth century the Maya Indians bullt great Cit1G and monum nts whlch Iank wlth the Pyramlds of Egypt Th haya Indians were hlvhly educated, they had work d out a ca nder, al o a m thou of WPltlHg Nany faots about this lost race have been brought to l1?ht by th florts of John L btephens of New York Steoh h1r d mul t ers Indlah ruln in away tre yungl monuments I menorlals, some by browinp roots lhese dressed and cov red wlth growth w troplcal ha bc h the cutting and IDdl3W carrl rs to mak hls way tc the Int rlor of Guatemala wher , aft r ltn a machete, he unearthed fourt n brovths rad nearly destroyed the knocked down and others pull d molumtnts curlously and rlchly hi roglyphlcs were not made by educated savag s, this was art, imne art, a flerce sort art ont could not recagnlz . Of all th explorer who hxve labored to bring the Maya out of darknes , nobody ras iccomplished o much a h H lhomb on. In Dlfmd by th legead that thc Maya Indlans had had a well at Chlvken I a Yucatln, fh re they S3CPlfl0bd Jounv mald ns and youn men to th rmln god, h spent mo t of hls llf tlm prov Ha the ancient l g nd After yea f plannlng, he boucht th lani wher tn sacr d pool wa locat d, and started dred lt After workin n arly a w ek w thout f ndlrg HHfthll7 but mud and d Oayed vev tatlon, he brought to ta surfac tfo mall r d pellets whlch prov to b lncense whlch, ac prd1ny to legend, had been us d 1U SlCFIflC11l ceremonies En furaf d, he k pt on wlth the tedlou dredglnb, th n thln s began to show up A hundred y ars ago, f N Anfrlcan had heard the nam of uma a QCHIC ly anyoae Jn the vorld was aware that once a r ce of Indlans whe rad toad ln culture far abov the prl m t1v savages of th Norta nad lnhablt d C ntral qmaFlC3 The dtcondants of thee cultur d Indlans till llve IH Guatemala and Yucatan Whey stlll speak themr an estral a fu , but the cruelt s of ta Spanlsh conqu rors have wmp d out ev ry other trlc uf th lr orlpinal genlu lhe exnloratlons beUUP by St phens and Thomnson hav been k pt un tlOU of have be Th re glnated by thc I xlcan Gov rnm nt and th CQPHSQI Inst tu Washlngton Th all I t mples, statues and pyramld n r tored to th gP1Wu ur of the grelt da s. are many theor e to h the Naya IHd1lHS ori nd how they boCQW o lar advanc d in cultur . 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