SAVAGE MAN IN MEXICO. 



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The peoples who have alternately dominated in Mexico and 

 Central America, and who are now in great part destroyed the 

 Chichinequas, the Toltequas, and the Aztecs are allied to the Red 

 Man by their physical peculiarities as well as by their moral charac- 

 teristics. The comparatively advanced civilization which the Spanish 

 conquerors found established in Mexico had not effaced among the 



THE APACHES ATTACKING AN EMIGRANT TRAIN. 



Indians the sanguinary instincts and vindictive propensities of their 

 savage ancestors. 



The race, or rather races which people South America are very 

 far from offering the same homogeneity as the populations of North 

 America. These races are four in number, each of which may be 



subdivided into several distinct branches. 



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