"
The boys climbed on again, mounting higher and higher, their aim
being to gain the very top of the ridge. After half an hour's
hard work they stopped and sat down, to look over the valley again.
"There are no written records of the origin of these people," the
drummer said, almost as if thinking aloud. "No one knows the origin
of the people. Cortez found them here when he arrived with his
brutal soldiers. All that is known is that the inhabitants came from
the North."
"Twice the country was populated from the North," Jimmie put in,
the readings at the Wolf Patrol club coming back to his mind.
"Now I wonder why, in reading history, we always find that
invaders came from the North?"
"I've read," the drummer went on, quite enthusiastic over the
subject in hand, "that the present North Polar regions were
tropical in temperature and in animal and vegetable life,
a long time ago."
"Yes, they find there, skeletons of animals which now exist
only in the tropics," said Jimmie, "and tropical trees deep
under the ice. The earth, they say, shifted in its orbit
and it grew cold up there. I guess that is why we read
of people always coming down from the North."
"They had to get out of the North," the drummer mused,
"because during the Glacial period an ice-cap miles
in thickness covered the world down as far as the
dividing line between the British possessions and the
United States. That is the way California and Mexico
and Central America were populated, anyhow.
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