264;
reports 64 kings in the first period, 264;
his account of the Peruvian sovereigns, 264-7;
the art of writing existed in the older time, 265;
how the first period closed, 266;
the second period, for 1000 years, a period of invasions, divisions,
small states, and general decline of civilization, 264, 267;
in this period the art of writing was lost, 267;
in it the 26 successors of the 64 kings were merely kings of
Tambotoco, 266;
how this period ended, 267-8;
the third period began with Rocca, the first Inca, 267;
why Montesinos has not been duly appreciated, 268-9;
his facts stand apart from his theories, 268;
probabilities favor his report of three periods, 270-1.

Montezuma on his building-material, 209.

Morgan, Lewis H., on the Indians, 59, 60, 66.

Mound-Builders, their national name unknown, 14, 57;
their mound-work and its uses, 17-19;
like mound-work in Mexico and Central America, 70, 71, 72;
their civilization, 33-39;
used wood for building material, 70, 71;
their inclosures, 19-24;
their works at the south, 24, 27;
their principal settlements, 30, 31, 34;
their border settlements, 52;
had commerce with Mexico, 73;
relics of their manufactures, 40, 41, 61;
their long stay in the country, 51-55;
were not ancestors of wild Indians, 58-61;
came from Mexico, 70;
were connected with Mexico through Texas, 73;
probably were Toltecs, 74, 200-3.

Muyscas, their civilization, 271.

Nahuatl or Toltec chronology, 203-4.

Natchez Indians, were they degenerate Mound-Builders, 58, 56.

Northmen in America, 279-85;
they discovered Greenland, 280;
their settlements in Greenland, 280-1, 284;
Biarni's constrained voyage to Massachusetts in 985 A.D., 163, 281;
subsequent voyages to New England, 281-4;
encounters with the Indians, 282, 283;
the Norse settlements in Vinland were probably lumbering and trading
establishments, 284;
not people enough in Greenland and Iceland to make extensive
settlements, 284;
written narratives of these discoveries, 279-80.

Origin of Mexican and Central American civilization, theories of,
165-183;
the "lost tribes" theory absurd, 166-7;
the Malay theory untenable, 170-1;
the Phoenician theory fails to explain it, 173-4;
the Atlantic theory explained by Brasseur de Bourbou