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Talmac, San Juan del Sur in the department of Rivas, and some
localities in Nicoya, in the republic of Costa Rica. From a linguistic
point of wiew Dr Berendt* has given very valuable contributions
to our knowledge of the ancient civilisation of Nicaragua by his
sharp-sighted and successful investigations into the Indian idioms
of that country and into those of Mexico and of the northern parts
of Central America.
*
In the night of the New-Years-eve 1882—1883 I arrived at
Ometepec from Granada, and took up my head-quarters at the little
borough of Muyogalpa, in the north-west corner of the island.
From this point excursions were made in different directions, and,
although my time was pretty severely taxed by zoological researches,
I found however some opportunities of undertaking archaeological
diggings.
Hardly one kilometer to the west of the burying-place examined
by Dr Bransford, a symmetrical mound, rising one meter and a half
above the ground, was dug through (Station 1). It contained a little
bowl, pieces of a larger urn of an unusual thickness, feet and
fragments of a tripod vase, and a little bronze figure of a saint, the last
one evidently a foreign guest among the other objects. At Los
Angeles (Stat. 2) two statues, both very badly frayed, were measured
and sketched; some insignificant fragments of pottery were digged
out. At a bay (Stat. 3) on the north side, between Muyogalpa
and Alta Gracia, in a place said by the Indians to have formerly
been a town, fragments of divers small pottery, two stone chisels,
one «molidor», and perforated and polished shells of a species of
Oliva and a species of Voluta, from the neighboring coast of the
* See above.
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