Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 (of 8) Aboriginal America

the side of the head (shaded dark in the cut) are not a part of the construction. He also finds two distinct periods of occupation in this region, to the oldest of which he attr...

connect the Mexican tongue with those of New Mexico and neighboring regions (iii. 664). Buschmann, who has given particular attention to tracing the Aztec connections at the nor...

THE civilization of the Incas of Peru is the most important, because it is the highest, phase in the development of progress among the American races. It represents the combined...

BY the discovery of America a new continent was brought to light, inhabited by many distinct tribes, differing in language and in customs, but strikingly alike in physical appea...

THE relations into which the first Europeans entered with the aborigines in North America were very largely influenced, if not wholly decided, by the relations which they found...

AS Columbus, in August, 1498, ran into the mouth of the Orinoco, he little thought that before him lay, silent but irrefutable, the proof of the futility of his long-cherished h...

IN the previous chapter, in attempting to trace the possible connection of the new world with the old in the dimmest past, it was hard, if not hopeless, to find among the entang...

THE traditions of the migrations of the Chichimecs, Colhuas, and Nahuas,” says Max Müller,[785] “are no better than the Greek traditions about Pelasgians, Æolians, and Ionians,...

instances the results in the numerous county histories, in the Western Reserve Hist. Soc. publications, in those of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of Cincinnati, of the Archæological Soc....

[630] Professor Willard Fiske has paid particular attention to the early forms of the Danish in the Icelandic literature. In 1885 the British Museum issued a _Catalogue of the b...

[261] Plato, _Phaedo_, 109. Schaefer is in error when he asserts (_Entwicklung der Ansichten der Alten ueber Gestalt and Grösse der Erde_, 16) that Plato in the _Timaeus_ (55, 5...

HARRISSE, in the Introduction of his _Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima_, enumerates and characterizes many of the bibliographies of Americana, beginning with the chapter, “De...

Norse customs, arising in part, as he thinks, from some of the lost Scandinavian survivors being merged in the savage tribes. Their recollection of the Northmen seems evident fr...

special phases will best be followed in Letronne’s _Des opinions cosmographiques des Pères de l’Eglise, rapprocher des doctrines philosophiques de la Grece_, in the _Revue des D...

Waldeck’s; but Bancroft, who compares the two, says that Stephens exaggerated the differences, which are not material, except in a few plates (Stephens’s _Yucatan_, i. 163; ii....

Foster rather strikingly likens what we know of the history of the human race to the apex of a pyramid, of which we know neither the height nor extent of base. Our efforts to tr...

OF the earliest collection of voyages of which we have any mention we possess only a defective copy, which is in the Biblioteca Marciana, and is called _Libretto de tutta la nav...

pueblos are finer constructions than those inhabited now. Cf. on the origin of Pueblo architecture V. Mindeleff in _Science_, ix. 593, and S. D. Peet in _Amer. Antiquarian_, iv....

Wilson in his _Prehistoric Man_ (i. 246) says: “By the unaided results of native science, the dwellers on the Mexican plateau had effected an adjustment of civil to solar time s...

[1674] Büchner’s _Man_, p. 26; Hugh Falconer’s _Palæontological Memoirs_, London, 1868 (ii. 601). Falconer’s essay on “Primæval Man and his Contemporaries,” included in this wor...

_Jahresbericht des Vereins für Erdkunde in Leipzig_ (1871). It is also to be seen in the Homem map of about 1540 (given in Vol. II. p. 446), and in the map which Major assigns t...

general term, signifying a savage, a hunter, or a warrior, Chichimecos, applied to roving tribes. Brasseur says that Mexican tradition applies the term Chichimecs generically to...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Norse Ship, 62; Plan of a Viking Ship 63, and her Rowlock, 63; Norse Boat used as a Habitation, 64; Norman Ship from the Bayeux Tapestry, 64; Scandinavian Flags,...

[1753] A few minor references may be given. The _Smithsonian Reports_ have papers by D. Trowbridge (1863); and by F. H. Cushing on those of Orleans County (1874). W. L. Stone he...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Benjamin Smith Barton, 371; Louis Agassiz, 373; Samuel Foster Haven, 374; Sir Daniel Wilson, 375; Professor Edward B. Tylor, 376; Hochelagan and Cro-magnon Skulls...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Manuscript of Bernal Diaz, 154; Sahagún, 156; Clavigero, 159; Lorenzo Boturini, 160; Frontispiece of his _Idea_, with his Portrait, 161; Icazbalceta, 163; Daniel...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Map of Northwestern South America, 210; Early Spanish Map of Peru, 211; Llamas, 213; Architectural Details at Tiahuanaca, 214; Bas-Reliefs...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Maps by Macrobius, 10, 11, 12; Carli’s _Traces of Atlantis_, 17; Sanson’s _Atlantis Insula_, 18; Bory de St. Vincent’s _Carte Conjecturale de l’Atlantide_, 19; Co...

ILLUSTRATIONS: Title of the _Newe Unbekanthe Landte_, xxi; of Peter Martyr’s _De Nuper sub D. Carolo repertis insulis_ (1521), xxii; Portrait of Grynæus, xxiv; of Sebastian Müns...