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true, I cannot tell. Some of the hair-
breadth escapes which it details, look a
little like Gulliver’s statements, while
many of them have about them ‘an air
of truth, |

I must tell you a little about the
country from which these remarkable
children are said to have been brought.
The Spaniards conquered Mexico and a
considerable portion of Central Amer-
ica, in the early part of the sixteenth
century. Before the arrival of the
Spaniards, these countries were inhab-
ited by natives, who seemed to have had
much more intelligence than the more