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her

má~

refinado que el nuestro, saber, que

ha de servi r de argan1asa para for1nar con to–

do aquello que hernos acarreado, una cosa

grande, completa, an1plia y noble.

Querer ahora con lo infinitisirnal que

sa–

ben1os, construir suntuosos edificios históri–

cos, es poco inenos que grotesco; es preten–

der edificar un palacio con unas pocas pie–

dras brutas, con algunas astillas de n1adera

con algunas hojas de «corugated iron».

Vol–

vernos a decir,

hay

que especializarse y

aprender con especialistas, o aconsejarse con

in the far West when he was dying.

Th~

latter

had

heard of our arrival and doings among the Easterµ

Lenguas, and he closelly questioned PC\int about us, te–

l'ling him that there was a tradi tion of their people ·

which

said that in the day s to come a few strange fo–

reigners V\rould arrive among them, not Indians

but

yet speaking their language;

th0

they \vould reveal to

them the mysteries of the spirit

w orld,

and mak e them

a great people. But he

ndcled

that

any

harm should

befa11 these foreig11ers at the hands of the Indians dire

calamity vvou1d ensue, ancl

the

lndian tribes w onld

cea.–

ex1st.

Called the expected

foreigners the

Im–

lah, vvhich

is certa inly not a Lengua

vvord>

but is evi·–

dently of foreign origin.

Can

be that our early

successer,

with the Len–

guas may be s omevvhat attributab1e to the influence of

this tradi tion? The lndians however, are very reticen

this subject, and, \ivhen questioned, profess to know