mitted to land by our guest and adviser, Don Jose Dolores Perez 
of San Miguel, and contented ourselves with a Fe survey of 
the imposing walls of the principal ruin, which resembles a 
fortress crowning the high bluff facing the sea. 
Returning to Progreso on the 12th = io prepara- 
tions were made for a month's excursion into the interior of 
Yucatan. From Merida visits were ee to Pika. Uxmal, Izamal 
and Sil sien ivan: The visit to ioral was all too brief for he 
Section of its splendid remains, but the ae is so fever- 
stricken even in winter that our most experienced advisers 
declared the risk too great to spend even a single night there. 
At Izamal several.massive ruins, mostly pyramidal bases of 
ancient -temples, rise in the midst of ie i ee breaking 
up its monotony and affording excellent foundations for its 
dwellings and churches. Here the party received most acceptable 
hospitality at the hands of Dr. George F. Gaumer, an American 
resident of the village. In Chichen-Itza, the most important 
group of ruins in Yucatan, a wack was spent and careful studies 
were made, ample facilities being furnished by our associate, 
Mr. EH. H. Thompson, proprietor of the fine hacienda on which 
the ruined city stands. 3 
sailing again from Progreso on January 27th, the yacht 
was next anchored in the port of Laguna or Carmen, in the State 
of Eaeeens on the southern margin of the Gulf. Desiring to 
visit the famous ruined city of Palenque, eibuated sixty miles 
to the south in the State of Chiapas, we took a steamer tha t 
