An inglorious Columbus; . y ends, or feet. He still shook himself, and rose andswelled ; a long snout grew from his head, and two great, shin-ing teeth out of his mouth. His skin remained as it was, naked,and only a tuft of hair grew on his tail. He was enormous. Ishould fill the earth, said be, were I to exert my utmostpower, and all there is on the earth would not satisfy me toeat. This may possibly be a genuine tradition of the compara-tively recent existence in America of some elephantine quad-ruped. Fig. 30 is a copy of the frontispiece of the second volumeof Sir Thomas RafQess History of
An inglorious Columbus; . y ends, or feet. He still shook himself, and rose andswelled ; a long snout grew from his head, and two great, shin-ing teeth out of his mouth. His skin remained as it was, naked,and only a tuft of hair grew on his tail. He was enormous. Ishould fill the earth, said be, were I to exert my utmostpower, and all there is on the earth would not satisfy me toeat. This may possibly be a genuine tradition of the compara-tively recent existence in America of some elephantine quad-ruped. Fig. 30 is a copy of the frontispiece of the second volumeof Sir Thomas RafQess History of Java, *^ and represents theelephant god Bitara Gana, or Ganesa, worshiped in that , 31 is a picture of one of the gods of the Mexicans, said tobe Teoyaomiqui, copied from the plate given on page 513 ofthe fourth volume of Bancrofts Native Races of the Pacific 612 AN INGLORIOUS COLUMBUS. States. ^** A comparison of the two will show so many resem-blances that the conclusion hardly seems far-fetched that the lat-. FiG. 30.—Bitara Gana, or Gan^sa. ter is merely a modification of the former, brought about bygradual changes, which have accumulated through many cent-uries. In both we see skulls and encircling serpents. The po- MEXICAN IDOLS. 613
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