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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...clothing was the rough skins of the wild beasts they took in prey, and their arms no other than the bow and arrow. Their religion was reduced to the simple worship of the sun, to which pretended divinity they offered herbs and flowers which they found springing in the fields. With respect to their customs, they were certainly less displeasing and less rude than those to which the genius of a nation of hunters gives birth." The arrival of the Nahuatlaca tribes about this time deserves special notice. They came in different numbers, at different times, and under a variety Clavigero, vol. i, p. 120. of names. Their original home was Aztlan, which Bourbourg locates in California; Prescott, Gondra, and Humboldt, "north of 420 north latitude" (Oregon, perhaps); Clavigero says, "north of the Colorado River;" the more recent school of Americanists gives it a southern location; while Father Duran, after locating it in Florida and asserting that his conclusions cannot be doubted, like all his contemporaneous authors, reverently adds, "Although in all I submit myself to the correction of the holy Catholic Church." Further along in his History this same author tells us how the royal chronologist, the aged Cueuhcoatl, described Aztlan to the elder Moctezuma when summoned to the court for this purpose. He replied to the emperor's question as follows: "Our fathers dwelt in that happy and prosperous place which they called Aztlan, which means 'whiteness.' In this place there is a great mountain in the middle of the water, which is called Culhuacan, because it has the point somewhat turned over toward the bottom, and for this cause it is called Culhuacan, which means 'crooked mountain.' "In this mountain were some openings or caves or... Brown_freq Compleat Lexical Tutor brown_freq worrisome worry worry-worryin worrying worse worsened worsens worship worshiped worshipful worshiping worshipped worshippers worshipping worst worst-marked Ideadiezcom is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her
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