I have a book here which tells all about them.

But now it is believed that they were built by natives.

I maintain that the men who could erect piles like that'-- and he showed me a picture--'were something more than petty chiefs.' Presently the object of this conversation appeared.

Mr Wardlaw thought that we were underrating the capacity of the native.

This opinion was natural enough in a schoolmaster, but not in the precise form Wardlaw put it.