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lock. The door now stands half open, ready for the student of 
Sanskrit, the Dutch civil servant with his knowledge of various 
local Javanese dialects, the Arabic and Persian specialist, to apply 
his shoulder, fling wide the gate of the treasure chamber, enter 
boldly in and gather a rich harvest of philological spoils. 
Cushites and Saba3ans laboured, Carib Indians bore their yoke, 
Arab and Persian invader came over the seas, then .Java-Malay 
sea-rovers, led by the hand of heaven, passed also over the 
great Pacific, and entered into their labours. Prosperity was 
too much for the Inca kings. For a while they prospered. 
Then they fell into idolatry like those old heathens of whom 
St. Paul wrote in the flashing and trenchant prose of the great 
epistle to the Ptomans, 
“ Because, when they knew God they glorified Him not as God, 
neither were thankful.”* 
* They worshipped Him indeed as Pacha- Kamak the Creator of the 
World , and built a mighty temple in His honour, the ruins of which still 
stand. But they turned to the Carib Supai or devil-worship and to the 
Konopas or idols of the early Cushite folk, and to the superstitious 
Brahministic worship of the Jluakas, Vakas, or sacred animals, places and 
objects. 
