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"Yes, I met him in Lima just as I was starting out on my expedition. He was preparing to come to New York." "What did you think of him then?" "Oh, he was all right, I suppose. He wasn't the sort who would care much for an archaeologist. He cared more for a prospector going off into the hills than he did for me. And I I admit that I am impossible. Archaeology is my life."
The archaeologist and the architect were left on the great stone steps smiling at each other; but whatever their common interests, they presented a considerable personal contrast, and the fanciful might even have found some contradiction in each considered individually. The former, a Mr.
There was Ralph Stetson, a good deal browner and sturdier-looking than when we encountered him last in "The Border Boys on the Trail"; Walt Phelps, the ranch boy, whose blazing hair outrivaled the glowing sun; and the bony, grotesque form of Professor Wintergreen, preceptor of Latin and the kindred tongues at Stonefell College, and amateur archaeologist.
The anecdotes which have been recorded of him show that he was something of an archaeologist, and something of a philologian.
It is a sort of ceremony peculiar to our family, which each Musgrave for centuries past has gone through on his coming of age a thing of private interest, and perhaps of some little importance to the archaeologist, like our own blazonings and charges, but of no practical use whatever. "'We had better come back to the paper afterwards, said I.
Always when digging into ancient mounds and graves, he had his horse near by ready for mounting, and his oil and other necessaries at hand, in case he should be summoned to the bedside of the dying. As the indians always knew where to look for him, no time was lost. Not only was the padre an archaeologist: he also gathered plants, birds, and insects.
In 1812, when she was twenty-one years of age, the old archaeologist handed over to her his guardianship accounts. Felicite acquired from her experience of provincial life, an understanding of money, and that strong tendency to administrative wisdom which enables the provinces to hold their own under the ascensional movement of capital towards Paris.
When the padre knew of our disappointment, he hastened to his prelate, told him that an eminent American archaeologist, with a party of four, wished to visit Mitla, but had no interpreter; might he not accompany these worthy gentlemen, in some way serving mother church by doing so?
When I even yet showed no intention of hurrying in to visit his new acquaintance, the boy said: "You must come in to see him, for I promised him you would, and you ought not to prove me to be a liar." This appeal proved effectual and I soon called upon the priestly archaeologist in the other car. He was an interesting man.
She had known neither father nor mother; she had been her own mistress from childhood; her guardian was an old archaeologist.
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