The History of North America, Volumen 19Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe Printed and published for subscribers only by George Barrie & Sons, 1905 |
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Página 169 - Mej'scd) tells us that when the Chichimecs invaded the country under the leadership of Xolotl, they found Tula deserted and grass growing in the streets, but the king was so delighted with the location that he ordered the monuments to be repaired and the town inhabited. It is also said that he followed the same policy at Teotihuacan, mentioned below, and at other places. A small but important find at this place made known through Dr. Antonio Penafiel of Mexico, was an engraved shell plowed up in...
Página 38 - In the first place, the linguistic map, based as it is upon the earliest evidence obtainable, itself offers conclusive proof, not only that the Indian tribes were in the main sedentary at the time history first records their position, but that they had been sedentary for a very long period. In order that this may be made plain, it should be clearly understood, as stated above, that each of the colors or patterns upon the map indicates a distinct linguistic family. It will be noticed that the colors...
Página 39 - It will be noticed that the colors representing the several families are usually in single bodies, ie, that they represent continuous areas, and that with some exceptions the same color is not scattered here and there over the map in small spots. Yet precisely this last state of things is what would be expected had the tribes representing the families been nomadic to a marked degree. If nomadic tribes occupied North America, instead of spreading out each from a common center, as the colors show that...
Página 61 - Tartar, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, with the Polynesians — which has not been claimed as discoverers, intending or accidental, of American shores, or as progenitors, more or less perfect or remote, of American peoples ; and there is no good reason why any one of them may not have done all that is claimed.
Página 258 - Notwithstanding the success of these Maya masons in erecting buildings capable of standing for hundreds of years, they were yet ignorant of some of the most essential principles of stone construction, and are thus to be regarded as hardly more than novices in the art. They made use of various minor expedients, as any clever nation of builders would, but depended largely on mortar and inertia to hold their buildings together.
Página 470 - Maya pictorial ideographic writings, nor the Peruvian quipos, nor yet such incoherent compositions as those of the Quiche Popul Vuh, written after the Conquest, are in any way comparable to the libraries of moral, religious, historical, and even poetic works produced in China, Japan, Tibet, and other Mongol lands during the last 1500 or 2000 years.
Página 251 - On the contrary, the older cities continued to flourish while the movement was going on. Such at all events are the deductions arising from a comparison of dates. How do these conclusions agree with the cognate evidence? . Perhaps the strongest evidence of the greater antiquity of Copan is to be found in the conditions underlying the foundations of the ruined buildings that occupy the surface. Where the river during its encroachments has torn away these foundations it has exposed to view the remains...
Página 228 - Near here, on the road to the city of San Pedro, in the first town within the province of Honduras, called Copan, are certain ruins and vestiges of a great population and of superb edifices, of such skill and splendour that it appears that they could never have been built by the natives of that province.
Página 182 - more like brutes than rational beings; their food was raw meat of birds and beasts which they hunted indiscriminately, fruits and wild herbs, since they cultivated nothing; but they knew how to make pulque with which to make themselves drunk; going entirely naked with disheveled hair.
Página 84 - World; and so far as we can trace the lines of the most ancient migrations, they diverged from that region. But there are reasons stronger than these. The American Indians cannot bear the heat of the tropics even as well as the European, not to speak of the African race. They perspire little, their skin becomes hot, and they are easily prostrated by exertion in an elevated temperature. They are peculiarly subject to diseases •' of hot climates, as hepatic disorders, showing none of the immunity...