West American History, Band 5,Teil 5Bancroft Company, 1902 |
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Acamapichtli according Acolhua Acosta Acxitl Ahau Ahpop allies Amer America Anáhuac ancient Antiq army arrived authorities Axayacatl Azcapuzalco Aztec Boturini Brasseur de Bourbourg brother Cakchiquel Camargo capital century Chalcas Chiapas Chichimec Chicomoztoc chief Chimalpopoca Cholula civilization Clavigero coast Codex conquest Culhua Culhuacan death descendants Duran emperor empire Guatemala Gucumatz Hacavitz Herrera Hist Huemac Huetzin Huexotzincas Huitzilihuitl Itza Itzcoatl Ixtlilxochitl king Kingsborough Kingsborough's Mex lake land later lords Maxtla Maya Mayapan Mexicans Mexico migration Miztecs monarch Monarq Montezuma Nahua nations native Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualpilli Nouvelles Annales Oajaca Olmecs origin period Popol Vuh priests princes probably provinces Quetzalcoatl Quiché Quinantzin record region reign Sahagun says Spaniards Spanish writers Teatro temple Tepanec Tezcuco Tezozomoc theory throne tion Tlapallan Tlascala Tlascaltecs Tlatelulco Tollan Toltec Torquemada towns traditions tribes Tulan Utatlan Vetancvrt Veytia Votan Xibalba xochitl Xolotl Yucatan
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Seite 151 - The science of language and the science of ethnology have both suffered most seriously from being mixed up together. The classification of races and languages should be quite independent of each other.
Seite 161 - Culebras, had bored ; that he marked it, and that he passed by the houses of the thirteen Culebras. He relates that in returning from one of his voyages he found seven other families of the Tzequil nation who had joined the first inhabitants, and recognized in them the same origin as his own, that is, of the Culebras.
Seite 90 - It is impossible, on reading what Mexican mythology records of the war in heaven and of the fall of Tzontemoc and the other rebellious spirits; of the creation of light by the word of Tonacatecutli, and of the division of the waters; of the sin of...
Seite 110 - Furdustrandir and Kialarnes, but they were driven by westerly gales to the coast of Ireland, where, according to the accounts of some traders, they were beaten and made slaves. Karlsefne, together with Snorre and Biarne, and the rest of the ships...
Seite 110 - Karlsefne and his company had erected their dwelling-houses a little above the bay; and there they spent the winter. No snow fell, and the cattle found their food in the open field. One morning early, in the beginning of 1008, they descried a number of canoes coming from the 8.W.
Seite 19 - It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age and first world, as they call it, lasted 1,716 years: that men were destroyed by tremendous rains and lightnings from the sky, and even all the land, without the exception of anything, and the highest mountains, were covered up and submerged in water fifteen cubits (caxtolmolatli) ; and here they added other fables of how...
Seite 86 - ... and defence from their enemies, so amongst the Mexicans and the Indians of Michoacan and Honduras an ark was held in the highest veneration, and was considered an object too sacred to be touched by any but the priests. The same religious reverence for the ark is stated by Adair to have existed among the Cherokee and other Indian tribes inhabiting the banks of the Mississippi, and his testimony is corroborated by the accounts of Spanish authors of the ™ Id., ]>. 154.
Seite 161 - I believe upon the latter. When speaking of the places he had visited on the old continent, he marks them on the margin of each chapter, with an upright S, and those of America with an horizontal S. Between these squares stands the title of his history "Proof that I am Culebra...
Seite 109 - After the lapse of three days they returned bringing with them some grapes and some ears of wheat, which grew wild in that region. They continued their course until they came to a place where a firth penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of it was an island past which there ran strong currents, which was also the case farther up the firth. On the island there were an immense number of eyderducks, so that it was scarcely possible to walk without treading on their eggs. They called the island...
Seite 119 - Doegs) then welcomed us to their town, and entertained us very civilly and cordially four months, during which time I had the opportunity of conversing with them familiarly in the British [Welsh] language, and did preach to them in the same language three times a week, and they would confer with me about any thing that was difficult therein, and at our departure they abundantly supplied us with whatever was necessary to our support and well doing. They are settled upon Pontigo River, not far from...