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...site of the diggings, the Altar de Sacrificios, is near the meeting of the Rio Pasion and the Rio Choxy, in the Department of Peten. Although a Peabody Museum expedition discovered the center in 1895, Professor Willey made the preliminary explorations only last year...
Little is known about Altar de Sacrificios except that it was inhabited as far back as 500 B.C. Most of the objects and buildings found near the site date from the golden period of Maya history in the first century...
...think; I want to drink"). The wages of sin are paid in dreary installments, but the writer is careful to make the sentimental deductions that most producers consider necessary for social security. The heroine follows the primrose path all the way, and finds that it leads to the altar...
...Coates had to start with was a typically Austenish setup: a poor widower with four unmarried daughters; sundry eligible young men ranging from a peer to a parson; a slew of poor relations, aunts, uncles. Coates tries manfully to convey at least half a dozen of them to the altar with Miss Austen's austere femininity...
...that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...