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...broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
...anyone come there to gain training of the mind. They came only for the great sport of Rolo. Rolo was the raison d'etre of the university, the paramount appeal to the people of the Inca realm. The furore which this revelation caused must have been tremendous, says Senor Alvarotez. The cry was taken up on all sides. Leaf after leaf of the college paper was covered with wild appeals to reason, conjecturing what the future would bring forth, suggestions for a remedy of the awful situation. We can fairly see the Incas dashing up and down their narrow streets...
...leaf which he had wet in his mouth now had an entirely different appearance. Senor Alvarotez went up to it out of curiosity, looked at it closely, then uttered a startled ejaculation. There were plainly visible on the wet leaf the characters of the Inca alphabet...
Most fables are founded on a perversion of fact. Senor Alvarotez, with great acumen, has been at work reconstructing this myth in the light of facts. On the will of the tower hung a small pla ue; its words, when deciphered accordign to the key furnished by the Bingham Expedition, read as follows: "Rising Bell. To be rung each morning at the rising of the sun". Then followed the date, in our calendar 1236 A. D. A minute examination of the chamber brought to light a collection of cracked and faded parchments, apparently of an official nature. The most interesting...
This letter was dated 1372; the university ceased to exist early in the sixteenth century. From this information, aided by Talma's fable, Senor Alvarotez has deduced the following theory. The bell-ringer, no doubt, was a descendant of the one who received the letter. Even after the university had ceased to function, father and son had continued to ring the bell in the early hours of the morning; until this bellman, the last of his family, had died at his post. Cordially yours, J. BLATE-DUNCAN...