1881.] Anthropology. 753 
As it is, the figures through which the groove is cut, are partially 
effaced. The groove was evidently cut after the completion of the 
stone, and in a very rough, uneven manner, passing through the 
figures in order to give a false importance to a carved stone, which, 
if allowed to tell its own tale, or, rather, if its history had not 
been destroyed so as to attach a false representation to it, would 
still be a valuable monument. 
others, —plain, simple Indians, not fond of the pageantry attrib- 
uted to them by the conquerors, who must fictitiously give them 
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