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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
y
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
t
they \vould reveal to
them the mysteries of the spirit
w orld,
and mak e them
a great people. But he
ndcled
that
if
any
harm should
befa11 these foreig11ers at the hands of the Indians dire
calamity vvou1d ensue, ancl
the
lndian tribes w onld
cea.–
se
to
ex1st.
Ha
Called the expected
foreigners the
Im–
lah, vvhich
is certa inly not a Lengua
vvord>
but is evi·–
dently of foreign origin.
Can
it
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
t
on
this subject, and, \ivhen questioned, profess to know