THE TRIP TO GUATEMALA, 1916. 
PROBLEMS OF MAYAN CULTURE. 
(1916) 
In February of the present year the writer had the 
good fortune to become a member of the Carnegie Institution's 
archeological expedition to Central America, Under the able 
direction of Sylvanus G, sorley the fascinating work of 
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exploring and studying in detail the rematkable remains 
of the anelent Mayan culture is being vigorously carried 
forward, The particular object of this year's expedition — 
was the discovery of additional inscriptions eabodying 
Glyphic datea - for it is the dates now read with facility 
wiieh furnish the skeleton of Mayan history. Among the 
ruins of the ancient cities visited while the writer was 
associated with the expedition were juirigua in Guatemala 
and Copan in Honduras. On arriving at Quirigua in company — 
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with Hr. «orley the writer emerged from the tropical forest 
that surrounds the few acres of ground in which the ruins 
are enclosed and came suddenly upon the first of the great 
