Mexican calendars, 214-15;
Peruvian calendars, 236. See Telescopic Tubes.

Atlantis supposed to be an ingulfed part of America, 175-7;
its destruction recorded in Egypt and related to Solon, 177-8;
said to be recorded in old Central American books, 176;
Proclus on remembrance of Atlantis, 178;
derivation of the words Atlas, Atlantes, and Atlantic, 179;
opinions relative to former existence of such land, 180-1;
geological probabilities, 181;
memory of war with the Atlantes preserved at Athens, 178.

Aztec civilization denied in a "New History," 207-8;
facts discredit this denial, 208-9;
Cortez found abundant supplies, 208, 210;
found Mexican mechanics, masons, and the like, 213, 214, 215;
the city of Mexico and its great temple, realities, 208, 212, 215;
both described, 211-12;
present remains of them, 214-15.

Aztecs, the, were less civilized than their predecessors, 221;
they came from the south, 217-18;
when they left Aztlan, 219;
how long they had been in Mexico, 219;
what they learned and borrowed of their neighbors, 220-1;
did not adopt the phonetic system of writing, 221;
could not have left such ruined cities as Palenque and Mitla, 221;
Aztecs still found at the south, 218-19.

Balboa's hunt for Peru, 223-4.

Basques, their fishing voyages to America, 62.

Books of ancient America destroyed in Mexico and Central America by
the Aztec Ytzcoatl, 189;
by Spanish fanaticism, 188-9;
a few of the later books saved, 180-196;
some of the more important, 195-6;
books of hieroglyphics in Peru, 256.

Boturini collected Mexican and Central American books, 195;
misfortunes of his collection, 195-6.

Brasseur de Bourbourg on the antiquity of the Mound-Builders, 53;
on their Mexican origin, 57;
on their religion, 53;
on the Chichimecs, 198;
on Huehue Tlapalan, 201;
on Nahuatl chronology, 204;
his "Atlantic theory," 159, 160, 174-83;
he has great knowledge of American traditions and antiquities, 174;
discovered the works of Ximenes and Landa's Maya alphabet, 191, 192;
translated "Popol-Vuh," 192;
he is unsystematic, confused, and fanciful, 102, 160.

Brereton on the wild Indians of New England, 62-5;
his invented stories of their copper and flax, 62, 63.

Calendars in Mexico, 214-15;
in Peru, 236.

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