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Excerpt from Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, New Issue, Central and South America, Vol. 2: Central America and West Indies
There has been little scope for geographical research in the scattered region embraced by this volume since its first issue ten years ago. Most of the lands here dealt with are included in the best known and longest established sections of the New World, so that actual exploration has been mainly confined to a few outlying districts in Honduras, Yucatan, and the Mexican Sierras Madres. In Mexico the most distinguished name is certainly that of Karl Lumholtz, an indefatigable worker in this field, to whom anthropologists will be grateful if only for the discovery of the Huichols, in some respects the most remarkable of all the Amerinds. Much important exploration work has been carried out by Mr. T. Fenwick in British Honduras, where some conspicuous heights now bear the names of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, while M. de Perigny has brought to light the extensive ruins of Rio Beque in Yucatan, and E. Seler those of Chacula in Guatemala. Of actual discoveries this is about the sum and substance.
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