Category: History - Other
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At an early period I endeavored to collect all the scattered fragments of this language, in order to elucidate and support the historical traditions. This labour concluded in 18...
4. CHAPTER II.Far from following the example of many American historians, who often take a single guide for their crude compilations, or avoid the trouble to consult all the historical source...
7. CHAPTER V.We have but few real American Annals, given in the original peculiar style. Those of Mexico, Guatimala, Apalacha, Hayti, Peru, &c., have all been translated by abridgements or p...
5. CHAPTER III.History does not merely consist in accumulating facts: these constitute the annals of empires; but the real philosophical history has a nobler aim. It seeks results, teaches les...
3. CHAPTER I.Since our Globe is better known, it is no longer divided into 4 Continents; but must be divided into 3 great parts of the world or _Tholomeres_, each containing 3 lesser divisio...
6. CHAPTER IV.After these floods begin the primitive annals of mankind in America as elsewhere; but still scanty, obscure and involved in fables, by personifications of tribes, metamorphoses...
10. Part III.—_Ancient History.The mountains of _Cauta_ must have been the refuge of men at one of the floods: they answer probably to the _Cuta_ of the Hindus, name given to many rocky lands and capes beside...
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11. Book V.The translators of Diodorus have blundered so far as to deem this island Madeira or the Canaries; which are small islands, without streams, and the first without inhabitants. It...
8. CHAPTER VI.Roman was a Jeromitan friar, come with Columbus, who began to convert the Haytians in 1496, and collected their traditions, after learning their language, out of the _Areitos_ o...
9. Part II. _Antidiluvian History and Flood._11th Event._ JAIA-EL rebels against his father JAIA and wants to kill him; a warfare, in which _Jaia-El_ is killed by his father, who puts his bones into a gourd. _Higuera_, or...
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