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37 THIRD, Pizarro Pillaged Peru, Princes Provinces Perdue. Pachacamae Passado; Papistry Passed Parvenu. ._ Apology and Explanation. [The above four lines may appear senseless, but considerable time was expended in going over the unabridged dictionary. to procure words beginning with "P" to make a doggerel. The first line explains itself; the second means that princes lost provinces.; "perdue," Webster says, means lost. The next wocft "PachJicamae" was the name of the Peruvians' Groci and Creator of the Universe; "passado" is defined as lost, passed; so the God as known in Peru was loat, deposed, set aside. "Parvenu," says the great au- thority, is, to attain to, to succeed, to rise to high sta- tion; an upstart, one newly risen into notice. Hence, ■the fourth line signifies that Catholicism supersedes' the religion of the Inca.] Skeptics may sneer at the early efforts of the' Church, but when a priest left Europe for the New^ World he knew his lot would not be a "bed of roses"; and so it was with Father Marcos of Nice. He was a Frenchman belonging to the Franciscan Brother- hood "Disoalcd," which meant at the date of oyr story,