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whose descendants Montezuma* thought he 

 recognized in the companions of Cortez, dis- 

 plays an additional resemblance to Amalivaea, 

 the mythologic personage of savage America, 

 or the plains of the torrid zone. When advanc- 

 ed in age > the high -priest of Tula left the coun- 

 try of Anahuac, which he had filled with his 

 miracles, to return to an unknown region, called 

 Tlalpallan. When the monk Bernard de Saha- 

 gun arrived in Mexico, the same questions 

 precisely were put to him, as those which were 

 addressed to father Gili two hundred years 

 later in the forests of the Oroonoko ; he was 

 asked, whether he came from the other shore, 

 from the countries to which Quetzalcohuatl had 

 retired-}-. 



We have seen above, that the region of 

 sculptured rocks, or of painted stones, extends 

 far beyond the Lower Oroonoko, beyond the 

 country (latitude 7° 5' to 7° 40'; longitude 

 68° 50' to 69° 45') to which belongs what may 

 be called the local fable of the Tamanacs. We 

 again find these same sculptured rocks between 

 the Cassiquiare and the Atabapo (lat. 2° 5' to 

 3° 20'; long. 69° to 70°); and between the 

 sources^ of the Essequibo and the Rio Branco 



* The second king of this name, of the race of Acamapit- 

 zin, properly called Montezuma- Jlhuicamina. 



t Torquemada, vol. ii, p. 53. 

 + The situation indicated as long. 62° 32' is properly that 



