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Updated: April 30, 2025
There's a long promontory, that the coasters see on the West Coast of South America near the Line, with a square white tower on a bit of high rock at the head of it. The promontory is called Mituas, and the point, Punta Ananias. That may be because some one ran aground sometime on the sand-bar off the end, and thought it deceitful.
What had happened to the Helen Mar I told him, and about the Mituas business, and the loss of the Anaconda, and even about Kreps and Liebchen. "My! My! Tommy," he says, after the last. "That's a lyric poem," he says, referring to Kreps and Liebchen. But he said nothing then about the Good Sister, and I decided to hang around till he did, and one day he brought me a bundle of papers.
Later Craney had a contract offered by the French agencies, and had to buy up most of the North Mituas cocoa crop to fill it. One day we sat together in front of the shed. He was laying out different schemes. He said this tribute business was too small, and there wasn't much enterprise in it. The Injuns were terrible set in their ideas. He had a number of schemes.
Well, he isn't, or these Mituas people of his will know why. Padre Filippo here, he'd always rather things were done peacefully." "Surely," says the Padre, "surely." "You'd better let us arrange it. Besides, in that case it might interest you say, ten dollars' worth of interest." "Fifteen," says the other, very calm. "It is no affair of mine."
Small men has small ambitions. Large men has wings. That's me." There were a number of heavy shocks, about the time when the eastern Mituas districts were picking the trees, and some of the Mituans were mad about it, but they had a big harvest.
What do I know of the new laws of the colonists, their republic? These lands are to my race in me, from the point to the bay, and north twenty leagues; so runs the charter: so witnesses my name, Mituas, given and decreed by Charles, the king and emperor, to Juan de Avila y Mituas, the friend of Francisco Pizarro, who was an upstart indeed, but a valiant man.
The shouting and the chant kept on, and the fire shone after us like a red path on the water. I don't know any more about the Tower of Ananias. But I know the Mituas people were sore about losing the keeper, who went to Lima, meaning to go to Spain, and never knew he'd been supernatural.
Then the keeper came back with the woman, who appeared to be a scared Indian and screeched some. He said her name was Titiaca, and she would look after us, but otherwise had no culture. Craney woke up and took a look at things. "I have already," the keeper says very solemn, "the advantage of your honourable names. My own is Gaspero Raphael de Avila y Mituas."
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