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On March 13 the expedition again left Belize by motor-boat for El Cayo, at 

 the head of navigation on the Belize River, and on March 18 set out from El 

 Cayo for northern Peten with a pack-train of 42 mules and horses. The 

 personnel on this trip consisted of Doctors Morley and Lothrop, Messrs. 

 Ricketson, Sopefia, and Harvey, Messrs. Cook, Loomis, and Martin of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, and Mr. A. M. Adams, whose 

 services as transport manager had been placed at the disposition of the expe- 

 dition by Mr. James Craik, of Belize, the local manager of the Chicle Develop- 

 ment Company. 1 



This trip lasted a month, during which the ruins of Naranjo, Nakum, 

 Uaxactun, Tikal, Uolantun, Tayasal, Ixlu, and Chichantun 2 (a new site of 

 Class 4), were visited, the party returning to El Cayo on April 11. 



On April 14, Messrs. Ricketson and Harvey revisited the ruins of Naranjo, 

 where they made a surveyed map of that site, returning to El Cayo again and 

 thence to Belize early in May. The only previous map of Naranjo had been 

 that made in 1904, by its discoverer, Mr. Teobert Maler, which was inac- 

 curate and incomplete. The new map shows Naranjo as considerably larger 

 than appears from Maler's map — indeed, when considered with its 36 sculp- 

 tured stelae and its Hieroglyphic Stairway, it may well be regarded as one of 

 the largest cities of the Old Empire. 



On April 18, Doctor Morley and Mr. Sopefia left El Cayo for a month's trip 

 across the northeastern corner of the Department of Peten, penetrating to 

 within 5 miles of the Mexican boundary at a point almost due north of Flores. 

 Two new sites were discovered: Xmakabatun 3 (a city of Class 3) with 4 

 sculptured stelae and 7 plain ones, and Naachtun 4 (a city of Class 2) with 11 

 sculptured stelae and 7 plain ones; the party returned to El Cayo on May 14 

 and to Belize on May 18. 



The new material discovered during the course of these several trips in 

 northeastern Peten may be briefly summarized as follows: 



1. Three new sites (1) Naachtun, 5 miles south of the northern boundary of Peten and 

 almost due north of Flores; (2) Xmakabatun, 35 miles north of El Cayo and just west of the 

 eastern boundary of Peten; (3) Chichantun, at El Gallo, on the camino real from Plancha de 

 Piedra to Flores, eastern central Peten. 



2. Fourteen new Initial Series. 



3. Thirty-one new monuments. 



4. Nineteen newly deciphered dates, including all but one of the Initial Series under 

 No. 2. 



1 The president of this corporation, Mr. M. U. Bromberg of New York, has taken an active 

 interest in Doctor Morley's investigations in Peten, offering all the facilities of the company's 

 large field organization, camps, supplies, mule-trains, and credits, thus contributing largely to the 

 successful exploration of this remote region. 



1 Chichantun: "Small stone"; chichan, "small" and tun "stone." This name was given to 

 this new Class 4 site because the two sculptured stelae found here were very small, not more than 

 4 feet high. 



3 Xmakabatun. "Stone without a name"; xmakaba, "without a name" and tun, "stone." This 

 name was given to this new Class 3 site because of the fact that two of its four sculptured monu- 

 ments (Stelae 3 and 4) had no hieroglyphs at all inscribed upon them, and the other two (Stelae 1 

 and 2) showed only the faintest traces of them. 



4 Naachtun: "Distant stone"; naach, "distant" or "far off" and tun, "stone." This name was 

 given to the new Class 2 site found this year because of its extreme remoteness, being at the very 

 center of the Yucatan Peninsula, far removed from every point of approach. 



