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was later more or less changed by inroads of migratory 

 Carib, a mongrel race that SAvarmed out of the Orinoco 

 valley and practically submerged the less warlike inhab- 

 itants of the Lesser Antilles, exerting sporadically an 

 influence felt as far as the mainland of North America. 



The second article, also by Doctor Fewkes, is a prelimi- 

 nary report on his reconnoissance in eastern Mexico in 

 the winter of 1904-5. The field expenses of this expedi- 

 tion were met by the Smithsonian Institution, and although 

 the exploration was limited to a few months' field work, 

 important observations were made which are here re- 

 corded. The purpose of the work was to gather material 

 bearing on a possible relationship between the peoples 

 who built the mounds of the lower Mississippi and the 

 pueblos of the Southwest, and the inhabitants of the 

 Mexican Gulf coast, known as the Totonac and Huaxtec. 

 For a study of the former the antiquities of a zone ex- 

 tending from Jalapa to Cempoalan was chosen, and for 

 the latter the region at the mouth of the Panuco river, 

 near Tampico. 



In this report Doctor Fewkes describes for the first 

 time the ruins of Cempoalan, a Totonac metropolis vis- 

 ited by Cortes. He also considers briefly clusters of earth 

 mounds at Texolo and Xicochimalco, which are likewise 

 regarded as Totonac. By courtesy of Sr Teodoro Dehesa, 

 governor of Vera Cruz, Doctor Fewkes was able to study 

 the magnificent Dehesa collection at Jalapa, which con- 

 tains many problematical objects characteristic of the 

 Totonac, including stone yokes, paddle -shaped stones, 

 and })ottery objects of various forms. Some of these, as 

 the remarkable paddle -shaped stones, compare favorably 

 in an artistic way with the best stonew^ork of the Ameri- 

 can aborigines. 



The so-called temi)le mounds of the Totonac, near 

 Jalapa, were found to be duplicated as far north as 

 Aldama, in Tamaulipas, or in territory formerly inhabited 

 by the Huaxtec. Descriptions of objects from these 

 mounds close the report. 



