bet, with explanations, 191.

Languages in Mexico and Central America, 200, 205;
three groups, 216;
probably not radically distinct, 206, 216;
the most important group supposed to be Colhuan, 205.

Las Casas on Central American annalists, 187-8;
what he says of the old books and their destruction, 188.

Maize, did Indians get it from Mound-Builders? 35.

Malays, their ancient empire, 167-8;
their navigation of the Pacific, 168;
spread of their dialects, 168;
came to America, 169, 170, 272;
El Masudi[TN-8] on the Malays, 168;
were not civilizers in America, 170-1;
ruins of Malayan cities in Java, 163-9.

Manco-Capac a fiction of the Incas, 260-1;
discarded by Montesinos and other early Spanish writers, 261, 269.

Mandan Indians supposed Mound-Builders, 74.

Mayas first seen by Columbus, 209;
their phonetic alphabet preserved, 191;
descendants of the first civilizers, 170.

Mexican cities noticed by Spaniards, 211, 215;
what Montezuma said of his building materials, 209.

Mexican "picture-writing" a peculiarity of the Aztecs, 221;
much inferior to the Maya writing, 221;
something like it at Chichen-Itza, 143;
Aztecs could not have left such inscriptions as those seen in the
ruined cities, 221.

Mexican ruins in the central region, 89-92;
Tulha, 89;
Xochicalco, 89, 90;
Papantla, 91, 92;
Cholula, 90;
Teotihuacan, 90;
pyramids with galleries, 91;
unexplored antiquities in this region, 91.

Mining works of Mound-Builders, 43-6;
mining method of the Mound-Builders, 43;
their mining tools found, 44, 46;
they left a detached mass of copper in a mine, 43-4;
antiquity of their mining works, 46, 53, 64.

Mitla, its ruins show refined skill in the builders, 118, 121;
the decorations, 121;
present state of the ruins, 117-122.

Montesinos, Fernando, explored and studied Peru fifteen years, 261;
unequaled in knowledge of its antiquities and traditional history, 263;
his means of information, 262;
how historical narratives and poems were preserved by the _amautas_,
263;
how literature can be preserved by trained memory, 262-3;
Homer and the Vedas, 262-3.

Montesinos on Peruvian history, 264-7;
there were three distinct periods, 264;
he rejects the Manco-Capac fable, 264;
does not begin the history with such stories,