Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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... passed on into the depths of the forest . It was the first time we had seen these mockeries of humanity , and with the strange monuments around us , they seemed like wandering spirits of the departed race guarding the ruins of their ...
... passed on into the depths of the forest . It was the first time we had seen these mockeries of humanity , and with the strange monuments around us , they seemed like wandering spirits of the departed race guarding the ruins of their ...
Page 255
... passed , than another , more threatening still , rose up . Thus they were in perpet- ual fear ; and what added to it , was the clearness of the water , through which they could see heaps of be- ings who had perished before , and whose ...
... passed , than another , more threatening still , rose up . Thus they were in perpet- ual fear ; and what added to it , was the clearness of the water , through which they could see heaps of be- ings who had perished before , and whose ...
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... passed around the neck of the horse , and both ends tightly braided into the mane , or the withers , leaving a loop to hang under the neck , and against the heart , which being caught up in the hand , makes a sling , into which the ...
... passed around the neck of the horse , and both ends tightly braided into the mane , or the withers , leaving a loop to hang under the neck , and against the heart , which being caught up in the hand , makes a sling , into which the ...
Contents
THE MEXICAN INDIANS | 7 |
ANTIQUITIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA | 89 |
INDIANS OF PERU | 105 |
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Abipones America Anahuac ancient animals antiquities appear Araucanians arrows Atahualpa Aztec beautiful birds body caciques called Camanchees ceremony character chief Cholula civilization cloth colors conquest corn Cortés cotton covered cultivated customs Cuzco dance death dress dwellings earth enemies fastened feast feathers feet high fish flesh flowers gold ground hair head horses houses Huascar Huayna Capac human hundred hunting idol Incas Indians inhabitants kind lake language live lodge maize Manco Capac manner Mexicans Mexico miles Montezuma mounds mountains nation noble ornaments Osage painting palace Palenque party Pawnees person Peru Peruvians possessed present priests pulque Quito race remains resembling river ruins sacrifice savage scalps sculptured seen side silver skins sometimes songs Spaniards Spanish Spirit square stone temple terrace Tezcuco tion Toltecs trees tribes tumuli village warriors whole wigwam wild women woods yanaconas