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...Plantain river," stated Mr. H. J. Spindler '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Spinden, an expert on the archaeology of Central America, is one of the leading investigators of the ancient Maya civilization, and has been on a number of expeditions to Yucatan and Honduras as a representative of the Peabody Museum. He is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Union. November 10, and will illustrate has talk with movies of the Honduras trip...
...Payas are boat-men of great daring and endurance, who drive forward in the face of the most tumultuous streams. I was alone with these natives during the course of my trip and found them a very interesting people, more humanly attractive than the comparatively civilized Maya Indians of Yucatan...
...note in TIME, Aug. 2, a letter from Terrell Croft, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, stating that your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p. m. on July 14 to his address. I'll admit that in this case TIME made good time. However, I wish to advise the gentleman from Yucatan that Montana is always to be found on the map, and is not in the "slow" class by any means. Your issue of Aug. 2 was received by me at 9 a. m. this morning, Aug. 1. It happened to be Sunday, which accounts...
...Merida, Yucatan, Mexico...
...Yucatan, Dr. Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason reached the definite conclusion that the Mayas originated in the Mexican highlands and in Guatemala, not being immigrants from Africa or Polynesia as has sometimes been suggested...