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médico ale1nán que dijo: ''La ciencia
n1édica
só lo progresará cuando hayan especialistas
para todo; sólo cuando haya un especia li .,ta
para una enfern1edad del pulga r derecho
y
otro
para
la
dfll pulgar izquierdo".
Induda–
blerne11te no
sería n1alo
llevar al terreno de
la práctica del a1nericanismo el consejo bur–
lón
de aquel 1nédico, en lo
que
toca a
la
es–
pecialización de los estudios investigatorios
y no dejarse llevar por el
entusias1nu
de ·que–
rer saber todo
y
volverse un
Offlnisa.piente
y
polí.grafo; ser geólogo, astróno1no, paleon
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then none of them have ventured to repeat the experi–
ment.
They maintain great secrety upon this subject,
and I ha ve been the on ly one tho wbom they ha
ve
dis–
closed
it;
but oven to me they have not indicated the
road or the exact position.
In all probability the three
adventures were suffocated
by
the pent-up gases.
The interesting point, hovvever, in this story is not
the question of a hidden treasure, but that these In–
di ans, w h o h a ve li ved jn a
lo-\1 /
s"\vnmpy region for ma–
ny generation s,and who never t ravel fa r from their own
<listrict for fear of their enemies , should retain such a
vivid a nd cleRr account of a ga llery cut
by
andina roc–
ky
regi on severa! hundred miles fron their home. Their
oft excavation <loes not appear to have been so mnch a
mine as a place tunnelled out for she reception of trea –
sure, and we know that the Peruvians at the time of
the Conquest carried off
~nt"J
secreted their treasure
vvherever possible, in order that tbey should not fa ll in-