The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-02

canoe and took him to a glorious city
with a high pyramid in the center of
it, which was named Heart of the
World.
"Of this city he saw little, however.
for its people kept him a prisoner,
only from time to time he was brought
before their king and elders, who sat
in a. hall filled with images of dead men
| fashioned in gold, and questioned as
to the country from. whence he came,
the tribes that dwelt in it, and more es-
pecially OF the white men who ruled
the land
I'm that hall alone, so he said, there
were more gold and precious stones
! than are to be found in all Mexico.
| When he had nothing more to tell
them, the people wished to kill him,
| fearing lest he should escape and bring
| upon them the white men who loved
| gold. The end of it was that he did
escape, by the help of a woman, who
| guided him back toward the sea,
| though she never came there, for she
died upon the road.
! "Afterward this man went to live in
a little village near Palenque, where he
| also died, having told nothing of what
| he had seen, since he feared lest the
vengeance of the People of the Heart
should follow him. When he was DYING
he told his son, who told his son, who
told the tale to me- Senior, it has been
the dream of my life to visit that city
and now at last l think that / have
found the clue which will lead me to
it."
why do you want to visit it, Ig-
natio?"
'-To understand that, senior, you must
know my history" And / told him OF
the failure of the great plot and the
| part that 1 had played in it, all OF
which | have already set out, also of
| the secret hopes and ambitions of my
| life.
"Senor," / added, though I am
beaten L am net yet crushed, and 1
still desire TO build up a great Indian
+, empire. l see by your face that you
: think me foolish. You may be right or
L may be right. / may be pursuing
! truths or dreams, I may be sane and a
redeemer, or insane and a fool. What
/ does it matter? / follow the light that
! runs before me; will-o- the-wisp or star,
| it leads to one end, and for me it is the
! light that am born to follow. If you
| believe nothing else, at least believe
good or advancement, but rather that
/ of my people At the worst 1 am not
knave, 1 am only a fool"
But how will you help your cause by
visiting this city, supposing it to exist,
| Ignatio?"
THUS, senior; these people, among
whom without doubt the old man of
whom 1 have spoken, who is named
ZfbaIhay, is a chief or king, are the
true stock and head of all the Indian
races, and when they learn my plans
and whom / am, they will be glad to
furnish me with means whereby 1 can
/ L I,
"And if they take another view of
the matter Ignatiot2'
Then. fear. that is all, and among
so many failures one more will scarce
~ matter / am like a swimmer who
| sees. or thinks that he sees, single
plank that may bear him to safety.
Maybe he cannot reach that plank, or
if he reaches it, maybe it will sink be-
meath his weight. AT least he has no
other hope.
'Senor. I have no other hope. There
in the Golden City is untold wealth,
for the man saw it. and without mon
ey. great sums of money, / am help
/ less. therefore / go thither to get the
money. The ship has foundered under
me. and with it the cargo of my. ambi-
tions and the work of my life; there
| fore, being desperate, I fall back upon
a desperate eXpedient.
First will seek this man that the
two halves of the heart may come to-
| Eether and the prophecy be fulfilled;
then, if may be, 1 will travel with him
to the city, Heart of the World, care
! less whether I live or die, but deter
mined. if need be, to die fighting for
the fullfllment of the dream of an In
dian empire-Christian regenerated,
and stretching from sea to sea-that
1 have followed all my days.
The dream, Ignatio? Perhaps you