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dedicate to this work, but for the necesity to make a careful analysis, which require profound studies in sources only obtainable in foreign countries and not available here.

In my account I hope to give all data as regards the exact location, the objects, paintings, etc.:-

To-day, I am limiting myself to report officially to you about the discovery and to make known my hypothesis about same.

1st Proof that the island of Pinos was peopled before the Spanish era.

2nd Identity of her civilization with Western Cuba, probably Ciboney.

3rd Ethnographical unity of these people with those of the American continent.

4th Their "astrolatric" (very likely star worshipping)religion.

5th Their art in their primitive or "precalistic" (very likely = before it was beautiful) phase 

6th First monument "rupestre?" of the Western zone of the Antillean Archipelago.-

I request you to communicate above to the corporation & please receive the testimony of my high consideration and personal esteem.-

FERNANDO ORTIZ