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Cacique and charged him with human sacrifice. For a while 

 the Indian could not speak ; then he vehemently denied the 

 accusation. The conference was long ; in the end, Pablo 

 admitted his innocence of the graver charge, but the acts of 

 paganry could not be disputed. He agreed to say no more 

 about them, however, on condition that the accursed flower 

 should be surrendered and destroyed in his presence. By 

 evening it was brought. But he changed his mind about 

 destroying it just then. As has been said, this was the pride 

 of M. Kienast-Zolly's collection for many years ; then it 

 passed, the half of it, to Baron Schroder, and a quarter to 

 Mr. Wilson. Shortly afterwards Mr. Measures secured the 

 latter fragment. 



The description of the sacred place certainly does not 

 apply to an Indian temple. The cairns were graves of 

 ancient heroes doubtless, and the figures portrait-statues, such 

 as I myself have seen in abundance to the southward. The 

 Indians made this desert spot a temple perhaps, and treated 

 the statues as idols, when their places of worship were 

 destroyed. 



