thern Mexican ruins most important, 93;
their masonry and ornamentation, 99-101;
a great forest covers most of them, 94, 103, 104;
a road built into the forest in 1695, 95, 151-2;
this forest covers a chief seat of the ancient civilization, 95;
Cinaca-Mecallo, 124.

Cevola, "Seven Cities" of, 85-9.

Charencey, M. de, attempts to decipher an inscription, 292-3;
his singular speculation concerning the worship of Kukulcan, 293.

Charnay, Desire, his account of Mitla, 121, 122.

Chronology of the Mexican race, 203-4;
of the Peruvians, 265-6.

Civilization, antiquity of, underrated, 181-2, 273.

Cloth of Mound-Builders, fragments of, 41.

Coin among the Muyscas, 271.

"Coliseum" at Copan, 114.

Columbus and the Mayas, 209-10.

Copan, its ruins situated in wild region, 111;
first discovered in 1576, and were then mysterious to the natives,
93, 111;
what Mr. Stephens saw there, 111, 112;
what Palacios found there 300 years ago, 113, 114;
the inscriptions, monoliths, and decorations, 112;
seems older than Palenque, 112, 113, 155.

Copper of Lake Superior described, 43.

Coronado's conquest of "Cevola," 85, 86.

Cortez invades Mexico, 210;
his progress, 210-11;
well received at the city of Mexico, 211;
driven from the city, 213;
how the city was taken, 213-14;
it was immediately rebuilt, 214;
the plaza made of part of the inclosure of the great temple, 214;
Cortez could not have invented the temple, 215.

Cross, the, not originally a Christian emblem, 109;
vastly older than Christianity as a symbolic device, 109, 110;
common in Central American ruins, 109;
the assumption that it was first used as a Christian emblem has
misled inquiry as to the age and origin of antiquities, 110.

Cuzco, Montesinos on its name, 227;
was probably built by the Incas on the site of a ruined city of the
older times, 226-7;
the ruins at Cuzco, 226, 234-5.

Egyptian pyramids totally unlike those in America, 183;
no resemblance between Egyptians and the Mexican race, 183.

Ethnology, American, discussed, 65-9;
South Americans the oldest aborigines, 68, 69, 185;
Huxley's suggestion, 69.

Gallatin, Albert, on Mound-Builders, 34.

Garcilasso partly of Inca blood, 258;
not well qualified to write a history of Peru, 258-9;
he began with the fable of Man