POLYNESIAN AND PERUVIAN DRAMA From Polynesia and the more civilized races of aboriginal America we also have isolated traces of drama. Among these are the performances, accompanied by dancing and intermixed with recitation and singing, of the South Sea Islanders, first described by Captain Cook, and reintroduced to the notice of students of comparative mythology by W. Wyatt Gill. Of the so-called Inca drama of the Peruvians, the unique relic, Apu 011antay, said to have been written down in the Quichua tongue from native dictation by Spanish priests shortly after the quest of Peru, has been translated by Spilsbury. With it may be contrasted the ferocious Aztec dramatic ballet, Rabinal-Achi (translated by Brasseur de Bourbourg), of which the text seems rather a succession of warlike harangues than an attempt at dramatic treatment of character. But these are mere isolated curiosities.