CONTEXTS. 

 CHAPTER XX. 



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Indian Population of the country lying between the great lakes of 

 Nicaragua and the Pacific Discovery and Conquest of Nicaragua 

 by the Spaniards Cruelties of the Spaniards The Indians of 

 Western Central America all belonged to one Stock Decadence 

 of Mexican Civilization before the arrival of the Spaniards The 

 designation " Xahuatls " proposed to include all the Mexican, 

 "Western Central American, and Peruvian Ilaces that had de- 

 scended from the same ancient Stock The Nahuatls distinct 

 from the Caribs on one side and the Red Indians on the oilier- 

 Discussion of the question of the peopling of America . .358 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Return to Santo Domingo The Birds of Chontales The Insects of 

 Chontales Mimetic forms Departure from the Mines Nica- 

 ragua as a field for Emigration Journey to Greytown Return 

 to England . ... 374 



