Around South America with a sample case . ch the heads of the children were boundin order to elongate the skull. The three metalsrepresenting the classes in Tihuanacuan figures of beaten gold and odd bits of pot-tery were there for my inspection, showing thestruggle of the human mind to reach a higherplane, and, handling these relics of the past, Ifound myself wondering if in their day they had amuseum in which they had gathered the unearthedrecords of yet another ancient people. Whoknows? The professor was not satisfied with taking meback years, but told me of his convic
Around South America with a sample case . ch the heads of the children were boundin order to elongate the skull. The three metalsrepresenting the classes in Tihuanacuan figures of beaten gold and odd bits of pot-tery were there for my inspection, showing thestruggle of the human mind to reach a higherplane, and, handling these relics of the past, Ifound myself wondering if in their day they had amuseum in which they had gathered the unearthedrecords of yet another ancient people. Whoknows? The professor was not satisfied with taking meback years, but told me of his convictionthat a great continent, such as Donnelly has socleverly described in Atlantis, had existed in thePacific, the Polynesian group being all that is left . 106 AROUND SOUTH AMERICA WITH A SAMPLE CASE of it, and that a part of its people, or what wasleft of them, when the catyclism occurred, left theirrecord in the Tihuanacuan ruins. As to their ori-gin, the veil will never be lifted, but it is mostfascinating to speculate on the Alcades. AROUND SOUTH AMERICA WITH A SAMPLE CASE 107 THE BACKBONE OF THE WORLD. CHAPTER VIII. We left the station at 3 :30, and the very muchoverloaded engine began to toil its way up theside of the canon from La Paz. We did not makegraceful curves this time, but cut straight on agrade all of four and one-half per cent. Shortlyafter leaving the station we passed a brickyardin operation, but it was no Harbison-Walker out-fit by any means, but rather an exact duplicate ofthe brickyard that gave old Pharaoh so much trou-ble, and all that is needed to start a riot in thatplant would be to cut off the supply of straw, forwithout it brick-making would be a tough prop-osition. As we neared the summit we lookeddown on the quaint city, noting the tiny patchesof leveled and cultivated soil, wondering all thetime how it could have been planted and by whatmeans it would be harvested, but the great ques-tion was how the farming could be made to pay,for the
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