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to have adopted this mode of exhibiting his skill and securing and extend- 

 ing his power. He permitted me to inspect the building. Drums, rattles, 

 and other insignia of the priest's art, were hung up on the wall. Heads of 

 men were rudely carved or inscribed, and numerous marks of the hand, as 

 in the case of naked dancers, were impressed on the involutions of the in- 

 ner walls. 



I have expressed the opinion that the human hand denotes strength, or pow- 

 er, or mastery arising from devotional acts. The want or absence of the 

 hand or arm, therefore, in these symbolical figures, should imply impotence, 

 weakness, or cowardice, arising from fright, subjugation, or other causes ; 

 and such is found to be the import of the armless figure of the human body 

 in two of the symbols of the ancient hieroglyphic inscription on the Asso- 

 net, or Dighton Rock, as explained by the welMmown American chief 

 Chingerauk. 



7HB BND. 



