44 CENTRAL AMERICA. 



fail to suggest the image, on a small scale, of 

 those cities of the plain, in sacred lore, after 

 their dread judgement, and before they were 

 finally covered by the Dead Sea. 



The Indian could not be made to under- 

 stand, that the greater light of the sun over- 

 powered the lesser one of the vapour, and pre- 

 vented it being seen in the day-time, but con- 

 tended stoutly that it was only lighted at night 

 by the " Demonios,"' who arrived at sunset 

 and departed in the morning. A very little 

 learning is a very bad thing, and the priests 

 that had taught him the doctrine of demons, 

 might just as well have gone a little further, 

 and taught him that they had not much to 

 do with volcanos. 



