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odio a cualquier nueva estrella, se:i

pri-

1nera o últin1a 1nagnitud, que surge en el cie–

lo del a1nericanismo; con ojos de envidia mal

disin1ulada, miran sus radiaciones, conside–

ránd\.1las por s u puesto «fuegos fatuos». Den–

tro de sí, pretenden decirse: los únicos que

valen somos

no~otros;

Ja única luz que debe

irradiar

alninbrar por sécula seculorum en

e l a1nericanis1no, es la nuestra. No tornan

s iq niera en cu en ta el ejemplo de modestia

del

Jefe

Vizcaíno que tuvo que escuchar al

ser aclarn ado, lo que le dijeron sus súbditos:

finnly to the cl an and triba l life, and avoids all connec–

tion ·with peoples difforing frorn himself in languaje and

blood, so he believes that the souls natura

lly

seek out

their friends and ancestor s , and thns continue as in vve–

re, the national lifc in shade-land. Por the soul, there–

fore, to seek a home so utterly different from that of the

deceased can only by accounted for by the fact that his

ancestors must have lived at one time in such cities.

The soul of the .Lengua Indian, in order tho reach these

cities, must perfore€ pass over inany in tervening tri bes

quite distinct fro rn his o-vvn, and regarded by him as

po~

ten ti al enemies , ho-vv , therefore, can vve accoun

for

this belief, unl es s we assume that these Indians

"'~ere

sorne remate period connected "vith the ancient cities of

Perú and Bolivia, and that they ha ve an indistinct tra–

dition of the land from vv ich

they originally carne? It

may

possibly by that these particular Lenguas are the

descnedents of Inca troops vYich had been stationed on