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been informed bvHabol, when the hitter passed throuo-h Berlin, of the 

 existence of important ruins in Guatemahi, and wIkmi, in isTO, during 

 his own American travels, his attention was called, in Guatemala, to 

 the discovery in Santa Lucia, and he had seen it himself, he recalled 

 what had been told him by Hahel. who had meantime disappeared. 

 Bastian. however, did not rest until he had traced him to New York 

 and had taken the necessary steps to have iiis report and drawino-spu))- 

 lished by the Smithsonian Institution Before leavinjjf Santa Lucia, 

 Bastian, promptly recognizing the importance of the discovery, had 

 purchased of the owner of the land for the Berlin Mus(nnn all antiqui- 

 ties which had been or should thereafter he discovered, an act for 

 which Americanistic investigation nmst be particularly grateful to him. 

 The most dithcult part of the task still remained, however, to be per- 

 formed, namely, the transportation of the treasures to the port of San 

 Jos^ for shipment. Bastian had the happy thought of securing the 

 cooperation of Dr. Hermann Berendt. wh(» had been settled for some 

 3'ears in Guatemala, and who, being well ac(iuainted with the country 

 and the people, and at the same time an eminent linguistic and 

 arclueological Americanist, was as much disposed to further the scien- 

 tific rescnirch as he was competent to cope with its practical difficulties. 

 (See my biographical notice of Berendt in the Globus, Vol. LIX, No. 

 22.) The matter was taken in hand with the aid of Engineers Napp 

 and Au. but greater difficulties arose than had been anticipated, for it 

 turned out that the majority of the l)locks were too heavy to be di'awn 

 to the coast by oxen over the rough roads. However, since they were 

 only sculptured on one face it was ultimately decided that the greater 

 part of their thickness should be sawn away. For this apparatus had 

 to be secured and labor performed, and it is not surprising that it was 

 not until the end of the year 1880 that the material was ready for ship- 

 ment and that it was oidy in August, 1S81, that it reached the Berlin 

 Museum in good condition. Berendt, unhappily, did not live to take 

 satisfaction in this final result. In the year 1878 an old complaint of 

 his was so aggravated by tht> exertions involved in many journe3rs 

 between his home and Santa Lucia that he died in April of that year, 

 and Americanist research thus lost one of its truest adherents. Bas- 

 tian, in his i)aper on "The Guatemalan Sculptures'' in the publications 

 of the Royal Berlin Museum for 1882 has given extracts from Berendt's 

 letters relating to this industrious period so trying to the patience of 

 all parties. For further information concerning the entire archa?olog- 

 ical find in- that neighborhood, of which only a portion, though no doubt 

 the most important portion, has been transferred to Berlin, the reader 

 ma}' consult the above-named works of Bastian and of Habel, as well 

 as papers b}- Gustav Eisen in the memoirs of the California Academj' 

 of Sciences, Vol. II, No. 2, and of Dr. Ed. Seler in the journal II Cen- 

 tenario, No. 26, Madrid, 1892. In these works the ruins are consid- 



