"Destroy! Oh! you, you--early Christian." Here I may state that Bastin was quite right, as we proved subsequently when we compared the head of the fetish, which, as it will be remembered, he had brought away with him, with that of the statue.
Allowing for an enormous debasement of art, they were essentially identical in the facial characteristics.

This would suggest the descent of a tradition through countless generations.

Or of course it may have been accidental.

I am sure I do not know, but I think it possible that for unknown centuries other old statues may have existed in Orofena from which the idol was copied.

Or some daring and impious spirit may have found his way to the cave in past ages and fashioned the local god upon this ancient model.
Bickley was struck at once, as I had been, with the resemblance of the figure to that of the Egyptian Osiris.