pot, but the mother says it was formerly well defined.

Every one of the seven pure Maya babies, below ten months old, in the
town was purple-spotted. A pair of boy twins, two months old, were
marked in precisely the same place with pale blue-purple spots, of the
same size and form. In one boy of ten months the spot seemed to be
disappearing and was represented by three ill-defined and separated
blotches. In the village, there were three babies of suitable age, but
of mixed--Spanish-Maya--blood; no one of these showed any trace of the
colored spot. We may say, then, that in Palenque every Maya baby below
ten months of age was sacral spotted, and that no Mestizo baby was.

Does this prove that the Mayas are Asiatics by ancestry? The daily press
asserts that I make that claim; it is mistaken. I am free to say I don't
know what to do with my spotted Maya babies. I presume that Baelz will
cousin them with his little Japanese.

FREDERICK STARR. From _The Chicago Tribune_: January 11, 1903.

INDEX

abandoned river course, 374.
acacia, 97, 216.
Acala, 48, 361.
Agua Bendita (Chiapa), 44, 348.
Agua Bendita (Mex.), 64.
agua miel, 61.
aguardiente, 255.
Aguazotepec, 240.
aje, 45: insect, 46; 79.
Ajuno, 76, 84, 107.
Akxotla, 191.
alcaldes indios, 357.
alligators, 277, 290.
Ancona, Bishop, 300.
antiquities, 116, 223, 230, 239, 288, 345.
ant--foraging, 289;
--honey, 190.
apparition of the Virgin, 395.
Aranza, 82.
arbol huerfano, 196.
arriero--tardy, 271;
--unreliable, 358;
--abandons us, 385.
Arroyo--Jefe, 247.
Atla, 245;
carry-sacks, 256;
costume, 256;
witchcraft, 256.
Atlihuitzia--Santa Maria, 195.
axolotl, 64.
ayate, 58, 267, 271.
Ayutla, 23, 149.
Aztec, 242, 279, 281, 283, 285, 397;
breakfast, 196.

babies--carrying, 267;
--care of, 57.
bamboo, 289.
band--Huauhtla, 237;
--honors us, 124.
bandolier, 318.
Barela, Sr. and Sra., 189.
bark-paper, 245, 246, 268.
Baron, 293, 320.
barranca, 190,191, 214, 280, 363.
Barrios--Pedro, 230.
basalt, 196, 249.
battle of flowers, 321.
begonia, 246.
Belen, 194.
bells--pottery, 112.
Benito Juarez--steamer, 293.
Bernal Diaz, 91.
bishop--Merida, 300.
blackflies, 343.
Blanco--Juan, 303, 316.
blessing--a mother's, 111.
bloom--trees, 340, 364.
Boca del Rio--rancho, 168.
books--Mixe, 155;
--Mixtec, 141;
Zapotec, 165.
bowls--calabash