| harbour. | | | | [97] “Work in Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology,” by | | Cyrus Thomas, Washington, 1887. | | | | [98] “The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, Historically | | Considered,” by Lucien Carr, Assistant Curator of the Peabody | | Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass. | | | | [99] See Note, chapter iv., p. 69. | | | | [100] In the sixteenth century, the Cherokees occupied the lands in | | that part of America where the States of North Carolina, Alabama | | and Georgia border upon the State of Tennessee. | | | | [101] See chapter v., p. 94. | | | | [102] Merida now occupies the site of Tihoo. The stones, with which | | were built the pyramids and temples, were used in the construction | | of the new city. | | | | [103] Relation des choses de Yucatan, p. 351. | | | | [104] According to Humboldt, the Toltecs arrived in Anáhuac | | (Mexico) A.D. 648, and reached Tula in 670. The pyramids of | | Téotihuacan, a few leagues north of the modern city of Mexico, | | were built by them. They afterwards raised the great pyramid of | | Cholula, and on its platform built a temple for the worship of | | Quetzalcoatl. From Cholula, colonies of the Toltecs went to | | Tabasco and Yucatan. | | | | The Aztecs arrived in Mexico in 1190, and found there the pyramids | | which they believed to hive been the work of their predecessors | | the Toltecs, who had obtained a knowledge of hieroglyphics and | | of methods of computing time by calendars. The Aztecs founded | | Tenochtitlan (the city of Mexico) in 1325. | | | | [105] The custom of confining captives or slaves in wooden cages | | for the purpose of being prepared for sacrifice, was supposed to | | have been established by the Aztecs about a century after they had | | settled in Mexico. |