weather became so hot and dry, that we were able

to work on May. By that time I had secured a complete set of photographs of each of the monuments Mr. Griuntini had finished a plaster mould of the great turtle and ho had also moulded the a mould of over sis hundred pieces most interesting portions of two other monuments. In addition to this, with the aid of my half-caste companions I had taken a mould in paper of one entire monument, and

recovered, and

the

steadily until the first

week

in

—

—

of every table of hieroglyphics and picture-writing which could be found, and Mr. Brockley had made a careful survey of the site of the ruins. The work of packing and transporting the moulds to the port was one of even greater difficulty than bringing the material, for there were over a thousand pieces of plaster moulding of all shapes and sizes with delicate points and edges which had to be protected from the slightest jar, and large paper moulds, some of which measured nearly five feet square. The last loads were not over the mountains when the rains commenced again with tremendous thunder-storms, ami the mountain tracks were again an alternation of mud-holes and watercourses. A few of the paper moulds were damaged by damp on the passage home, but, on the whole, the result of the expedition has been very satisfactory.

Since 1883 one other fallen monument has been discovered, and we have learnt that the stone-faced mounds are the foundations of temples

much more completely

similar to those at Copan, but

ruined.

It

was mainly

with the purpose of more thoroughly examining these foundation-mounds and correcting the survey that stay

we took

a

number

we

revisited the ruins in 1 S

of moulds and had finished

all

4

.

During our short

the clearing and

made

the necessary preparations for the survey, which Mr. Price was to carry out

few days after we left the ruins both Mr. Price and Gorgonio were prostrated by a very bad type of fever, and it was with much difficulty that they succeeded in reaching Yzabal, where, owing to the kind attention they received from Mr. and Mrs. Potts, to whom many a traveller owes a debt of gratitude, they recovered sufficiently to start, Gorgonio for his home at Coban, and Mr. Price for England. The survey was necessarily left unfinished, and the plan here given is taken from Mr. Brockley's survey, amended as far as possible from Mr. Price's As both Mr. Price and Gorgonio were too ill to attend to the notes. packing of the moulds, that work was perforce left to the local carpenter at Yzabal, with the result that more than half the moulds were found to be in a hopelessly ruined condition, when, after some unexplained delay, they arrived six months later in England. I spent an unhappy day at the Museum opening the packing-cases and rescuing the less-injured moulds from the evilsmelling mass of mildewed paper, and returned home only to be sent to bed for what the doctor first of all called an attack of influenza, but on the next after

our departure.

But, alas

!

a very

day declared to be undoubtedly malarial fever, whether caught from conveyed from the tropics in the rotting paper, who shall say ?

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