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"Cada nno d e nos vale tanto como vos y to–
dos nos va len1os inás que vos".
Para llevar alguna lnz en la enrnarañ a–
da prehistoria del continente, lo único que
pocl e1n os reeotnenclar es especializarse ,
y
si
fu era posible en una sola inateria, aunque es–
ta sea la 1nás insignificante, y no pretender
d igerir todo lo que uuo ve
y
puede palpar
apartntemente sin acordarse del sabio r efrá n
castellano que dice: "q nien n1ucho
abar~ a,
poco aprieta". Preferible sería
n1ás
bien to–
rnar el burlón consejo (}lle se atribuye a u n
t he Chaco frontier, or perhaps Peruvians who h a d fl ed
fr om the Spaniards, and entered the Chaco from that
directio11.
The formation of the Chaco is such that no mines
of
any
description could be
fou nd
there;
but
these Len–
guas have a dictinct trad ition that
Hway
on the fr on–
tier, far distant from their own country, and in a Ja nd
occupied by a tribe unknown to them, there exis ts a
passHge cut in the rocks which penetrates sorne distance
in to the bilhide, ard in which sorne valuable treasure
líes hi<lden. They ha ve
described
minutely
to
me the
characteristics of the counhy around this exca va tion,
~nd
ah;o the height and breadth of the passage, and
the
manner in which
it
was made. It appears that
1vithin
living memory sorne Indians penetrated to that
place, and that three entered the secret passage, but
ne ,;rer returned. The Indians told me that thev ''ere
ki lk<l
by
spirits guarding the treasure, and the since