Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples: Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and UxmalBrine, Lindesay
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Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples: Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Brine, Lindesay
Guatemala -- Antiquities; Indians -- Antiquities; Mexico -- Antiquities; North America -- Description and travel
Cuba, 373.
Cuoq, M., 150.
Curing illness by steam, 174, 175.
Cutler, Rev. Dr., 100.
Dakota Indians, 127, 133, 145, 147–149, 150, 153, 154, 159:
human sacrifices of the, 132–134, 171–173, 401:
language of, 159, 160:
and sun worship, 163, 164:
and sickness, 164–165:
and lightning, 166:
and transmigration, 167–168:
fasts of the, 168–169:
and serpent worship, 170:
burial customs of, 173, 175:
curing illness by steam, 174–175:
burial mound, 377.
(_see also_ Sioux.)
Damariscotta, shell mounds at, 27, 30–33, 376.
Dance, Indian, at Chilon, 269–272.
Dancing, Indians and, 404.
Darwin’s coral theories, 13.
Dauphin, the (Williams), 52, 53.
Davis, Mr., 64.
Dayton’s Bluff, 381.
Debauchery of the Mexican Indians, 272, 403.
Demons, Indian offerings to, 363, 364.
Des Moines River, 138.
Delaware Indians, 94, 134, 385.
Dialect at Ocosingo, 266, 267.
Dialects of the North American Indians, 151–154:
of Guatemala Indians, 232.
Diaz, Bernal, 197, 220, 223–227, 323–328, 331–333, 346, 396–398, 404.
Digger Indians, 147, 148.
Dighton, rock at, 33.
Dowding, Captain Herbert, xv.
Dupaix, Captain, 309.
Earthworks in Ohio, ancient Indian, 54–103, 379–385.
Emerson, Mr. Ralph Waldo, 22–26, 28, 29.
Escalanta, Señor, 335.
Esconauba, River, 36.
Escuintla, town of, 181.
Esquipulas, pilgrimage to, 186–188.
Evans, chief Elder of the Shakers, 8, 9.
Faribault, half-breed Indian, 117–119, 161, 164–169, 172, 173.
Fasting of the Dakotas, 159, 160.
Festival, Indian, at Jacaltenango, 243–245.
Festival of San Caralampio, 255.
Fire, Indian method of lighting a, 241, 261.
Flathead Indians, 20.
Florida, 102, 103:
Professor Agassiz and, 12, 13:
shell mounds in, 14, 21:
rivers in, 322:
coast of 374–377:
Indians in, 376, 377.
Forests; in Michigan, 41, 139, 140:
near Palenque, 42, 138, 139:
of Aracan, 140, 141:
between San Pedro and Palenque, 282–284, 290–294, 303.
Forster, Mr. J. H., 45, 46, 51.
Foster, Mr. J. W., 137.
Fort Ancient, on the Little Miami river, 87–96, 190, 202.
Fort Du Quesne, 76, 77.
Fort Hill, 92.
Foxes, Indian tribe, 109, 174.
Franciscan Missionaries in Yucatan, 364–366.
Franklin, Sir John and Lady, 4.
Fuegians similar to the Ute Indians, 148.
Fuego, volcano, 181, 182, 196, 199, 200.
Fuentes, the historian, 236, 237.
Fuller, Margaret, 24.
Gage, Thomas, 195.
Gallatin, Mr. Albert, 130.
Game in the Platte valley, 145.
Garcia y Granados, Colonel, 183, 184.
Gavarrete, Señor, 184–186.
Glacial action near Ishpeming, 50.
Godillo, Don Mariana, 255, 256.
Goitre, Indians suffering with, 242.
_Golden City_, ship, 176, 177, 180.
Gomara, 415, 416.
Grant, President, 5.
Grave Creek Mound, 58–61.
Great Britain, Daniel Webster on, 22.
Great Salt Lake, the, 146.
Great Star, human sacrifice to the 131–134.
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