Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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... Lake of Tezcuco , there were floating gardens , which particularly excited the admiration of the Spaniards . These consisted of scows or rafts , formed of reeds , rushes and other fibrous materials , firmly woven together , and covered ...
... Lake of Tezcuco , there were floating gardens , which particularly excited the admiration of the Spaniards . These consisted of scows or rafts , formed of reeds , rushes and other fibrous materials , firmly woven together , and covered ...
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... lake Tezcuco , and many of its houses were raised upon spiles . The chief access to the city passed over the lake from the south , and came into a broad street which crossed the town : this led to another causeway which traversed the lake ...
... lake Tezcuco , and many of its houses were raised upon spiles . The chief access to the city passed over the lake from the south , and came into a broad street which crossed the town : this led to another causeway which traversed the lake ...
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... lake . Its waves seemed to be rising , and at a distance looked ready to swallow them up ; but just as they entered the whi- tened edge of them they seemed to melt away , as if they were but the images of waves . But no sooner was one ...
... lake . Its waves seemed to be rising , and at a distance looked ready to swallow them up ; but just as they entered the whi- tened edge of them they seemed to melt away , as if they were but the images of waves . But no sooner was one ...
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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