desire to receive visitors whose 
presence will at the same time 
stimulate the native industries. It 
is known that in. search of spices 
the New World was discovered, 
and who knows if the discovery 
of the fossils was not a result of 
the renown desire to offer curio¬ 
sities to tourists. 
THE NATIVE TOMBS 
We consign, to finish, that 
near Ocu there exists another 
place called “La Guaca”, where 
it is said that there are at least 
twenty-five native tombs. These 
“interments” also seem to exist 
in Majara, El Yerbo, Sehales, Co- 
naca etc. Near to the Pan Amer¬ 
ican Highway at the point where 
the road branches off for Ocu. 
there are at the incline of a hil¬ 
lock numerous worked stones, 
which make o(ne believe that 
there once stood on that spot an 
old, temple in the days prior to 
the Spanish colonization. The 
proximity of the district of Pa- 
rita, where Dr. Stirling, repre¬ 
senting the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion, made excavations in 1948 
with notable results in materials 
as can be seen in the National 
Museum in Panama, indicates 
that two thousand years ago there 
existed in this region an Isth¬ 
mian culture long before the 
beginning of the Christian Era, 
and the civilization that came 
from Europe fifteen hundred 
years later. 
• La ''Piedra -Cab alter a” que se encuentra cerca del sitio donde fue localizado el fosil. Es 
ademas de curio su, una prueba evidente ds los efectos de Id erosion. 
• This curious stone called ff Piedra Caballera’ > shoivs the effect of erosion, near the place 
where the fossil was located. 
