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...silent bush spreads like a sea over leagues of country through which not even the Indians always know their way, two big parties searched out "lost" cities of the Mayan civilization to fill the, gap from 600 to 1000 A.D. in known Maya history. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann, famed Mayan authority, led his aides along a giant, 50-mile stone causeway from Chichen-Itza to the lost, lagoon-locked city of Coba, a march often made ceremonially by the Cobans into Chichen-Itza and finally as a migration by the Chichen-Itzans into Coba, probably in the Sixth Century...
...find the wonderful city which the lineal descendant of a proud clan that once ruled a Maya province reported to Mr. Gann. But with fair luck we hope to return to the United States with some worth-while contribution to modern knowledge of this old world in the New World, this civilization that had already passed its splendid prime when Columbus and Cortez came...
...Took a Saturday afternoon cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Capper (wife of the Senator from Kansas), Mrs. Gann (sister of Senator Curtis, also of Kansas) and Charles G. Washburn, a former Representative from Massachusetts...