"Yet I can hardly believe that any man would risk his neck to steal so remarkable a mummy, which he would have a difficulty in disposing of.
But did this assassin know of the emeralds, he would venture much to gain them, since jewels can be disposed of with comparative ease, and cannot easily be traced." "All the same," said Random, looking up, "I do not see how the assassin could have learned that the jewels were wrapped in the bandages." "Humph!" said Hope, glancing at De Gayangos, "perhaps there is more than one copy of this manuscript you speak of." "Not to my knowledge." "The sailor Vasa might have copied it." "No." Don Pedro shook his head.

"It is written in Latin, since a Spanish priest taught the son of Inca Caxas, who wrote it, that language.

I do not think that Vasa knew Latin.

Also, if Vasa had copied the manuscript, he would have stripped the mummy to procure the jewels.

Now, in the newspaper advertisement it stated that the bandages of the mummy were intact, as also was the verdant case.