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Ho matter what the business or pleasure that takes you to Yucatan, 
you will find it humanly impossible to escape the lure of Mayaland . To 
see something of what yet remains, in part restored, of that former most 
advanced of native American civilizations is a temptation not to be 
denied} at least it was not by the members of aur primarily biological 
expedition. 
So it came about that when Dr. Daiber had completed his mangrove 
swamp study, we headed north skirting the coast at this time on our way 
back to Cozumel. We had been intrigued by two brief bits of information 
in the U, S. Havy’e Hydrographic Office Sailing Directions for this 
part of the world ( the Italics and bracketed Insertion are mine ) i 
Salta Iman ( Kilbride Cliffs ) are conspicuous as they are 
the only cliffs along this ^otherwise low, flat, and 
densely woodedj coast. They are about So feet high and 
front the coast for about three miles. At their northern 
end are the ruins of a large square watchtower. 
Tancah, about 4 miles north-north eastward of Salta Iman, is 
a small settlement that may be identified by a white sandy 
beach that forms a break in the otherwise slightly elevated 
land . A small stone temple on a truncated pyramid , overgrown 
with vegetation, is conspicuous and stands about j? mile 
inland of the settlement . There is a small pier at the 
settlement . 
Because of the pier and its promise of landing facilities, Tancah 
became our next objective. But well before Tancah, we glimpsed that "large, 
square watchtower" atop the Kilbride Cliffs gleaming white in the 
