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that when the floods cease nature, never returned ; 
cause it found food sui e which soon returned bear- 
that then he sent out a pig , tbat w hen the old man 
ing the branch of the hoha tr _ > „ * Tk anc ient Peru- 
saw the earth dry he dm ,emha rked . Lg Spaniards, 
vians related a somewhat nt ly as to deluge 
They said that it had ^ 0U Xy in consequence of which 
all the lower parts of JAe con tQok plac6j seven per- 
an nniversal destruction caves on tTie tops of 
sons only retirements they had con- 
mountains, into tnes number of living animals. 
veyed a stock of provisions and a number ot g ^ 
As' soon as the ram cea f^ k t mud and slime. H^nce they 
returned to them smeare , subsided. After a cer- 
concluded that the floo y coin ing back, 
tain interval, they sent out m J^ hahitah[e . Upon this 
convinced them that the , re ^ re ^ and became the 
they left the places into which tl y Many other very 
progenitors of the present race of mem J 6 bee n found among 
similar recollections of a gener ,, ^ merioa . But of all these 
the various tribes °f North an belonged to the ancientAztecs 
this people were 
of Mexico. When Americ rrieture- writing somewhat 
found in possession of a metl In this 
analogous to the manner of keep U p records 
rude state of civilization the = enabled to keep ^ oreed 
of their past history, and prese “ u J ion J a deluge, 
with tolerable accuracy . ttat of Noah’s, was 
which m its mam P° mt s 1 , tb e -buffalo and deer skm, 
visibly presented m books Tma/tCoxcox) and his wife, on a 
This painting represented a m ( ^ A dove, too, 
raft, which rested at the toot ; anguages to the men 
from the top of a tree was dmtnbutmg langu g Humboldt 
born after the deluge, because they habited Mexico five 
says that of the different " "xcox ; the tradi- 
had paintings representing _ o scacious canoe with 
tion being that « Ooxcox embaAed _ When the 
his wife and children, i seveia ^^aw, Coxcox sent out 
KtrVSw ah"S n*™, « — ‘ * *— 
+ gee Priest’s American Antiquities. 
