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and the carved images of the ancient Maya to be found among the ruins, and suggested correctly that the original Maya civilization was created by the ancestors of the contemporary Mayas. He was also the first investigator to copy carefully the Mayan hieroglyphics and identify them as a unique form of
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soon after his arrival but then talks proceeded in a desultory fashion. By April 1836 Palmerston had determined not to work with
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in April 1831. He spent a month exploring the site and wrote an account of the various structures, drew plans, and sketched several of the decorations he encountered. Later that year his account was published by the London
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and settle the area in five years with colonists who would be loyal to the
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in May, 1835 but failed to gain their endorsement. Galindo proceeded to London and arrived there in August. He had a meeting with
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