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logo, arqueólogo, etnógrafo, antro¡ ólog o, fi–
lólogo, etc. Reco1nend an1os, y vol vere1nos a
recomendar siempre a la generacióu es tndio–
Ba qne nos sigue, de especializarse y hacf~ r
estudios propios, acordándose q ne está archi–
vado ya el ~n1agister dixit~.
Lo que se debe pretender por el n1on1 en –
to, es acnn1ular material, esto es, escribir ino·
nografías y no dejarse llevar por el entusi as-
1no de querer abarcar n1ucho. Algún día,
cuando el n1aterial sea algo corn pleto, han de
venir otros a juntarlo, a ordenarlo con su sa-
to the hands of the rapacious Spaniards. Unless sorne
ot these Indians had á t one time been acquain ted w ith
Peruvians, an ad perhaps formed pnrt of those vho
fled to the Chaco fastnes;ses at the time of tht" Conq•1es t ,
how is it possible to account for these Indi h av ing
thi s t!"adi tion a t the presen t day?
A Peruvian legend says that ·white and benr<l ed
men, coming from Lake Titicaca ata remote period, ru–
led over ánd civilized the na t i ves of the land. A simi–
lar tradition existed among the Aztecas of Mexico ,
which said that Quetzalcoatl carne from the E3st ,
bringing like b1essings to the inhabitants, and becoming
their deity. Among the Chaco Indians there a re also
traditions of a strange and wonderfu1d people yet to
come. A Lengua named Point, who had travalled w i–
<le1y, and \i\Tho was cousidered by us to be the most in–
telligent 0f the Indians, communicated to me a version
w hich _he said he had received from a very old vv iza rd