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co-Capac, and confined all history to the Incas, 259-61; was received as an "authority," 269; his influence has misdirected Peruvian studies, 269. Gila, valley of, its ruins, 82. Gold the most common metal in Peru, 250; astonishing abundance of Peruvian gold-work, 249-50; their gardens made of gold, 250; amount of gold sent from Peru to Spain, 238, 250; gold calendar found recently at Cuzco, 236. Herrara[TN-7] on the buildings in Yucatan, 149. Huehue-Tlapalan, from which the Toltecs went to Mexico, 57, 75, 201-3; supposed to be the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, 202, 203; described in old Central American books, 202; the Toltecs driven from Huehue-Tlapalan by the Chichimecs, or wild Indians, 203; it was at a distance northeast of Mexico, 201, 202; Cabrera and others on Huehue-Tlapalan, 202. Humboldt on Phoenician symbols in America, 186; on the origin of the Aztecs, 218; on Peruvian great roads, 245; on books of hieroglyphics found in Peru, 246, 255; describes the pyramid of Papantla, 91, 92. Huxley on American ethnology, 69. Incas of Peru, origin of the title, 267; they represent only the last period of Peruvian history, 261; their dynasty began 500 years or less before the Conquest, 260-1; list of the Incas, 261; Manco-Capac a fable, 260-1. Indians of North America, vain endeavors to connect them with the Mound-Builders, 62; came toward the Atlantic from the northwest, 59; the Iroquois group may have come first, 58; their distribution relative to the Algonquins, 59, 60; date of Algonquin migration estimated, 60; these Indians resemble the Koraks and Chookchees, 65, 185; they are entirely distinct from Mound-Builders and Pueblos, 60, 65; their barbarism original, 61. "Inscription Rock," 78. Inscriptions in Central America written in Maya characters, 196; written perhaps in an old form of speech from which the Maya family of dialects was derived, 196; attempts to decipher them, 292. Iron, names for, in ancient Peru, 248. Israelitish theory of ancient America, 166-7. Keweenaw Point, a copper district, 44. Kukulcan, his worship, 220, 293. Lake Peten in the forest, Maya settlement there, 95; Ursua's road from Yucatan to the lake, 95. Landa wrote on the Mayas of Yucatan, 191; preserved the Maya alpha
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