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...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, opens the list with an appearance on November 10. Dr. Spinden, a noted authority on the ancient Mayan civilization, will speak about his recent expedition to Yucatan and Honduras and illustrate his talk with motion picture slides of the region travercel. His experiences among the primitive Indians of Central America form a narrative of great interest...
...Spinden has made many original discoveries of Mavan relies and a number of his acquisitions are now on exhibition in the Peabody Museum. On his as tiourney to the interior of Handurgs the sole white man on the expedition. Dr. Spinden unearthed some ancient temples sites and ceremonial deposits of great historical and archaeological value...
...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, recently related to a CRIMSON representative the strange narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...
...period of which Mr. Spinden tells is from 1670 to 1894 when the Mosquito Kings ruled a wide territory of swamp and jungle and the Mosquito fleets barred a thousand miles of reefrimmed shore line. The dynasty of Oldman the First ruled through these two and a quarter centuries...
...Oldman was established upon the Indian throne after Charles II of England had hailed him as a brother monarch in order to further his colonial schemes," stated Mr. Spinden, "From this time on, the Mosquito Kings were pawns in, an intricate game of empire-building...