ates wholesale murder and seizes the Inca, 220;
the Inca fills a room with gold for ransom, and is murdered, 220, 249.

"Popol-Vuh," an old Quiche book translated, 192;
what it contains, 193;
Quiche account of the creation, 194;
four attempts to create man, 194-5;
its mythology grew out of an older system, 193-4;
kingdom of Quiche not older than 1200 A.D., 193.

Pueblos, 76, 77;
Pueblo ruins, 77-89;
occupied northern frontier of the Mexican race, 68, 217-18;
unlike the wild Indians, 67-8.

Quiches, notices of, 193.

Quippus, Peruvian, 254-5.

Quirigua, its ruins like those of Copan, but older, 114;
it is greatly decayed, 117;
has inscriptions, 117.

Quito subjugated by Huayna-Capac, 225;
was civilized like Peru, 270;
modern traveler's remark on, 276.

Savage theory of human history, 182.

"Semi-Village Indians," 67, 68.

Serpent, figures of, 28;
great serpent inclosure, 28.

Simpson, Lieut., describes a Pueblo ruin, 88, 89.

Spinning and weaving in Peru, 247;
vestiges of these arts among the Mound-Builders, 41;
the Mayas had textile fabrics, 209.

Squier on the Aztecs, 92;
on the more southern ruins in Central America, 123, 124;
on the monoliths of Copan, 112;
on Central American forests, 94;
on the ruins of Tiahuanaco, 234.

Telescopic tubes of the Mound-Builders, 42;
silver figure of a Peruvian using such a tube, 254;
such a tube on a Mexican monument, 123.

"Tennis Court" at Chichen-Itza, 142.

Titicaca Lake, its elevation above sea-level, 236.

Tlascalans, what Cortez found among them, 210;
their capital, 211;
aided the Spaniards, 211.

Toltecs identified with the Mound-Builders, 201-205;
how they came to Mexico, 201, 202;
date of their migration, 204. See Huehue Tlapalan.

Tuloom, in Yucatan, 150.

Uxmal described, 131-137;
more modern than Palenque, 155;
partly inhabited, perhaps, when Cortez invaded Mexico, 131, 155.

Valley of Rio Verde, its ruins, 82, 85.

Wallace, A. R., on ruins in Java, 168-9.

Welsh, the, in America, 285-7;
Prince Madog's emigration, 285;
his colony supposed to have been destroyed or absorbed by the
Indians, 286;
letter of Rev. Morgan Jones on his "travels" among the Doeg Indians
who spoke Welsh, 286-7.

Whipple, Lieut., on Pueblo ruins, 78-85.

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