Photograph by O. F. Cook 

 PIGMY CORN OP THE HIGHEST ALTITUDES, PICTURED SEVEN-EIGHTHS NATURAL SIZE 



The culture of maize is carried to its extreme limit in a few places on the islands and 

 slopes around Lake Titicaca, at an elevation of nearly 13,000 feet. The diminutive ears 

 were bought in the market at Copacabana, on the south shore of the lake, where a great fair 

 is held annually, near the end of the winter season, in August. In a planting of this type of 

 corn on our Pacific coast, near San Diego, last year ears about twice as large were matured 

 in sixty days, indicating that the Copacabana corn may be of use in breeding varieties for 

 short-season conditions in the United States. 



that there are none left but me, in this land 

 or out of it, and therefore I now do what I 

 can to relieve my conscience." * 



The message carried its own verifica- 

 tion. In testifying to the virtues of an- 

 other race, Serra showed himself pos- 

 sessed of the highest virtues of his own, 



*lhe Travels of Pedro de Cieza de Leon; 

 translated by Clements R. Markham. Volume 

 33, Hakluyt Society, pages 32-33, 1864. 



the love of truth and fairness, and a 

 kindly interest in human welfare, beyond 

 all bigotry of country, creed, or race. 

 Many Spaniards appreciated the Incas, 

 but were powerless to save them. The 

 individual was helpless, for it was a clash 

 of systems, with no basis of common 

 understanding. Writers of large histori- 

 cal works like Garcilasso de la Vega and 

 Cieza de Leon may be suspected of color- 



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