. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. ason to believe that the gold-cultureof the Chiriqui country and allied remains 111the same region to the borders of Nicaragua maybe due to the Chibchan stock —the Talamanca,Guaymi, and a few other dialects of Costa Kica,etc show affinities with Chibchan tongues. 1 heiruse and working of gold were of. a high order,but neither in architecture nor in pictographycould they compare with the Peruvians theMexicans, and the Mayas. They had a char-a
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. ason to believe that the gold-cultureof the Chiriqui country and allied remains 111the same region to the borders of Nicaragua maybe due to the Chibchan stock —the Talamanca,Guaymi, and a few other dialects of Costa Kica,etc show affinities with Chibchan tongues. 1 heiruse and working of gold were of. a high order,but neither in architecture nor in pictographycould they compare with the Peruvians theMexicans, and the Mayas. They had a char-acteristic hero-legend of Bochica and a tale ofthe great flood. The shrine of Lake Guatavitawas a famous religious resort. Some ot thefamous El Dorados were in. their Quechuan stock, which is best knownthrough the civilization of the Incas, superim-posed upon an older, widespread culture, rep-resents but one phase of higher human activityin the Peruvian area. The extension of Uue-chuan language especially von Tschudi and Brm-ton agree in attributing not to the militaryachievements of this people, which antedated the AMERICAN ?i. < ay. w D DO Pi a INDIANS coming of the Spaniards by only a few cen-turies, Iut to intellectual and culture influencesmillenniums old. The marks of their languagecan be traced from near the equator on thenorth to the Pampean tribes on the in the Peruvian ana seem to have beena highly developed agriculture (stimulated, asin the southwestern united States, by the ne-cessity tor irrigation ami artificial treatment ofthe soil),— maize, tobacco, potatoes, cotton, etc.,the breeding of the llama and the paco, themaking of pottery (useful and artistic), metal-working of a tine and ingenious sort, stone archi-tecture more massive and imposing than artis-tically beautiful, or of the highest order asregards decorative art. The Inca form of gov-ernment was never probably so far removedfrom the system common to most of the
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