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encountered. Later we always rowed down in a cranky old boat, 

 forcing our way in to shore through the massed water hyacinths 

 (see fig. 71, Strong, 1937) to land at the old stone steps (see map, 

 fig. 20). These roughly laid tiers of unworked stone extend several 



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LIGHT BROWN 



DARK BROWN 



BLACK I I LIGHT YELLOW BUFF 



Fig. 30. — Yojoa Polychrome vase, Mayoid type, Aguacate. 

 (From a private collection at Jaral.) 



meters from the shore up over the barrier of volcanic rocks that lie 

 just beyond. They api>ear to be artificially laid and of native origin. 



Site i 



Our first excavations were made in one of a series of low, rock- 

 covered mounds about i kilometer southeast of the stone steps (site i, 

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