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nations of Mexico iiiul Central America, the fortunes of war may have 

 compelled a tribe to change its location is undoubtedly true, but this 

 does not warrant tlie belief so geuerally entertained that they were 

 uothiufj m(n'e than wandering- hordes of savages without any fixed 



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Ylfi. ^40.— The village of Sei-otaii. 



abodes. It is also true that the dwellings of some of the tribes were of 

 a primitive and very simple character, easily destroyed and easily re- 

 built, but in most casfts each prominent village had its public h<nise or 

 hguses, such as a council house, temxjle, and barracoa or grain house, 



