. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. of Anthro. Soc. of London, vol. ii.), the characters on the•ocks at the Falls of the Madeira (Kellers A7tiazon and Madeira Rivers, ), and the Erere figures published by Professor Hartt (Am. Naturalist, ). But they indicate no more affinity to each other than to the AncientBritish Inscriptions desciibed by Tate, which they resemble. The wild,unlettered men of every age and nation have similar pictographic speculate on their deep significance is labor thrown away—at pres-ent. The Peruvian Hydrographical
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. of Anthro. Soc. of London, vol. ii.), the characters on the•ocks at the Falls of the Madeira (Kellers A7tiazon and Madeira Rivers, ), and the Erere figures published by Professor Hartt (Am. Naturalist, ). But they indicate no more affinity to each other than to the AncientBritish Inscriptions desciibed by Tate, which they resemble. The wild,unlettered men of every age and nation have similar pictographic speculate on their deep significance is labor thrown away—at pres-ent. The Peruvian Hydrographical Commission discovered on the Ucayalinumerous hieroglyphics in a large sandstone rock, lat. 9° 9 i S. 464 The Andes and the Amazons. the primeval men dwelling by the Great River were wiserthan their descendants. And now new causes are at workarresting any attempt at development — in fact, doomingthe race to final extinction. When the white man comeswith his rum and disease, his law and license, the red mandisappears. Every stroke of the settlers axe will be as. Maue Indian. (From a Photograph.) a nail driven into the coffin of the native; for at everysuch stroke he will be thrust farther away from the mainsources of his life — the pnncipal rivers and hunting-grounds near them; and, as soon as the shrill whistle ofthe locomotive shall sound through the clearing and proudsteamers rock on the rivers, he will be totally undone. * Kellers Amazon and Madeira. , Amazonian Indians. 465 And then, too, in some strange way, with no apparent rea-son, the Indian seems to melt away just because his rivalappears; a blank, saddened stare steals over him like ashadow—a sign that his hour has come, and he is blightedand withered like a leaf. He simply fulfills the inexora-ble law of suppression which hangs over every insufficientIace. The Indian is not a tropical animal. The Negro andCaucasian are far more at home on the equator. The In-dian is very susceptible to changes of climate or
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