Scanty Information given by the Early Voyagers -- Private Houses of the Mayas -- Interior Arrangement, Decoration, and Furniture -- Maya Cities -- Description of Utatlan -- Patinamit, the Cakchiquel Capital -- Cities of Nicaragua -- Maya Roads -- Temples at Chichen Itza and Cozumel -- Temples of Nicaragua and Guatemala -- Diseases of the Mayas -- Medicines used -- Treatment of the Sick -- Propitiatory Offerings and Vows -- Superstitions -- Dreams -- Omens -- Witchcraft -- Snake-Charmers -- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies -- Physical Peculiarities -- Character 783 [Illustration: NATIVE RACES OF THE PACIFIC STATES SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE CIVILIZED NATIONS] THE NATIVE RACES OF THE PACIFIC STATES. CIVILIZED NATIONS. CHAPTER I. SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION. DEFINITION OF THE TERMS -- FORCE AND NATURE -- THE UNIVERSAL SOUL OF PROGRESS -- MAN THE INSTRUMENT AND NOT THE ELEMENT OF PROGRESS -- ORIGIN OF PROGRESSIONAL PHENOMENA -- THE AGENCY OF EVIL -- IS CIVILIZATION CONDUCIVE TO HAPPINESS? -- OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE HUMANITY -- CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO PROGRESS -- CONTINENTAL CONFIGURATIONS -- FOOD AND CLIMATE -- WEALTH AND LEISURE -- ASSOCIATION -- WAR, SLAVERY, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENT -- MORALITY AND FASHION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRESSIONAL LAW. The terms Savage and Civilized, as applied to races of men, are relative and not absolute terms. At best these words mark only broad shifting stages in human progress; the one near the point of departure, the other farther on toward the unattainable end. This progress is one and universal, though of varying rapidity and extent; there are degrees in savagism and there are degrees in civilization; indeed, though placed in opposition, the one is but a degree of the other. The Haidah, whom we call savage, is as much superior to the Shoshone, the lowest of Americans, as the Aztec is superior to the Haidah, or the European to the Aztec. Looking back some thousands of ages, we of to-day are civilized; looking forward through the same duration of time, we are savages.