The expedition arrives ....

There have been a spate of new arrivals in Malize to help with the expansion of the colony. A shipload of settlers and a small geographical and scientific expedition.

The expedition is lead by messrs Randell and Hopkerk, with them are a group of surveyors and mapmakers; plus artists to record wildlife and plants.

The surveyors are set to work marking out plots in cleared land for the new colonists...

one of the artists is already at work recording the local wildlife....

while other members of their team are busy, Randell and Hopkerk discuss where the should go for the their first expedition in land ...

perhaps the maya ruins at Cochumel, or the caves near Comayagua, or a search for the rumoured mayan gold in a lost city in the deep jungle. These are  all very tempting but they decide on a trip to the mission of San Cristobel to meet the monks there and obtain the native language dictionary that the monks have compiled .....