The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-25


: dress and hue unfamiliar 70 the assembled mobiles
There you to await my messenger. he como ask.
ing for treasure you to give it to him. for it will be
to ransom and royal ineage he reports
departure of the strange boats you to with all
your retinue if he with message that all is lost
you are to seek out place the vast regions
ruler over you
1.-THE mobiles bowed low and taking the child for he
was but SIX years DID, and the stranger guide went forth
Hastily collecting their families and servants they IN
number about thousand set forth for the place the
Inca had appointed priest second only to the high
priest in rank, accompanied them.
But when they had como down from mountains
to great plain and great river the wild man, their
the agones of his DEATH able disclose the spot where
the mobiles were to await the kings messenger.
to make t1 Wer thew WsEa sh i
royal courier the thought being that he would travel
over the route they had themselves come so
could not them. many months had passed and
no message came, decided by the waiting people,
ne continued, to 60 down the stream until region
was reached suitable for kingdom property
was great and huge floats built large enough
carry the whole company and their ocks and
ure On them they slowly sailed down the river,
the rainy set in turning the whole district into
When finally they reached place where "t the
land again appeared scarcely half their number remained
Here they landed and stayed for some months to re-
cru1t their health and replensh their stores
resumed their Journey travelling steadily the north and
east After time they came among some hills where
{sS Inca and one aS"sSsd
|'For full month they were beseged and then in
direst extremity they sent out if there
was not point where the steep sides Of the valley
SAYING There is trail up the mountain along
lofty ridge for several miles, where it terminates
against the side of huge cliff, towering many hundred
could be climbed, and at the top great plain
with a lake and running streams It unnhabted
and would not only sustain the fugtives but would be
easy of defense So they fled up the path, leaving
guard to protect their flight and after much hardship and
difficulty reached this plateau with all their company
"Once upon the plain, the priest, who a won
drousy wise called another council In this he said:
*Here we have chance to establish ourselves
again nation, but Inca is dead and there is no
to take his place. advise that we form federation
dividing the rule five nobe with myself
sellor.'
ellis plan was adopted
'The plateau divided into naturally
by four streams flowing into the lake. One of these
tons assigned to each of the four cousins of the lost
Inca while the city, built four islets of pure white
sandstone in the center of the lake. ntrusted
hafuncle who also made the keeper Of the state
treasure. The wise, old eccesiasc also announced
the rules by which the land to be governed in after
years.
*Long these plains were fully deveoped how
ever, there came great Storm accompanied by
ders and lightnngs and tremendous earthquake When
it over the guards who had been left at the point
ascent running to that the RIDGE
along which the people had come had under earth
quakings, been completely severed from the great cliff
so that all communication with the country below cut
off.
"About two hundred and fifty years after the set
Element here, the population had increased that
plateau becoming overcrowded and would no longer
support the people, This especially true in the
smaller districts of Haurna and Arauco while the
of Chochma and Zoctlan would not parting
with any of their territory that it might be added to the
overcrowded districts, their sections well
nigh full At length the of Arauco revoted and
followed by the chief of Haurina. The
banded together to put down the rebellion, and
suit fierce civil for nearly five years. This
Immediately followed by great pestlence
by the gods punishment for the unnatural strife
thousands more persisted.
"Owing to these two Affections, the population
reduced to about twenty thousand That there should
be another uprising the decreed that
all sicl and imperfect children should be put
at their BIRTH and that but three children should
lowed to father and mother every child after the third