It is my opinion.

Nothing else can account for the exquisite earthenware which is found there.
Women, you are aware, far surpass men in the arts of beauty.

Moreover, the inscriptions on hieroglyphic rocks in these abandoned cities evidently refer to Amazons.

There you see them doing the work of men--carrying on war, ruling conquered regions, founding cities.

It is a picture of a golden age, Mrs.Stanley." Aunt Maria meant to go by way of the San Juan, if she had to scalp Apaches herself in doing it.
"Lieutenant Thurstane, what do you say ?" she asked, turning her sparkling eyes upon the officer.
"I must confess that I never heard of all these things," replied Thurstane, with an air which added, "And I don't believe in most of them." "As for the San Juan route," he continued, "it is two hundred miles at least out of our way.