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HUMAN CLIFF-DWELLERS. 



WHO THEY WERE AND HOW THEY LIVED. 



Scarcely more than four hundred years ago Amer- 

 ica had not a name. Neither the old Vikings, who 

 visited its shores long before Columbus made his first 

 voyage, nor John Cabot, who first looked upon the 

 continent after the Northmen, had any idea of the 

 nature or extent of their discoveries. 



"When it was ascertained that two great continents 

 on this hemisphere balanced Europe, Asia, and Africa 

 on the other, America began to be called the New 

 World. But it is not in reality new. It is quite as 

 old if not older than that on the other side of the 

 globe. Ages before it was known to Europe, suc- 

 cessive civilizations arose, flourished, and decayed; 

 and, as far as anything is actually known on the sub- 

 ject, it is just as possible that the Old World was dis- 

 covered ages and ages ago, and peopled from America, 

 as that the native inhabitants of our hemisphere, the 

 forefathers of our Indians, came from the Eastern 

 hemisphere, for America is a very ancient land. Of 

 course, no one thinks that this is the case, but really 

 nothing at all is known about it. 



Many, many centuries there lived a race of peace- 

 ful Indians in that part of our country now divided 

 into the States and Territories of Arizona, New Mex- 

 ico, and Colorado. Instead of warring upon the 



