and tried to put these off upon the visitors as though they weere the accounts in the inscriptions, but when pressed or cross-examined it was found they could not explain or interpret any one character to any visitor of any nation.
    8. The last of the dates on the inscriptions I have seen was of the time of Ata-hualpa, and it mentions him, so that as the Spaniards conquered his kingdom of Quitu, and the Inca dominions there also, this seems to have put an end to the voyagings from S.W. America to Easter Island; previous to that time these valuable inscriptions contain records of the past only to be found in them, as engraved in the hieroglyphics and in the languages of old peoples of America.
     I have in the above only endeavoured to give as briefly as I could a reply to the inquiries of Mr. White, but the subject is so far-reaching, extensive, and interesting to all who have gone into it, that I have only been able to touch the matter in the merest superficial manner, for it would if properly dealt with occupy a large volume.^__A. CARROLL.