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observe, that this dress is generally black ; but persons 
in tolerable circumstances, for instance, those of the 
mixed race, wear ruanas of striped serge {listado)j 
which cover the Indian tunic, called capisayo. . These 
ruanas are depicted on the 25th Plate ; in order that 
the figures, detaching themselves from the back 
ground of the landscape, may serve to vary the aspect. 
The shape of the garment is very exact, but the co- 
lours of the listado are too lively in some of the co- 
pies. 
Page 30. System of the Hindoos. I am mistaken in 
what 1 have said, on the testimony of some of the 
Shastras, that all the yougas of the Hindoos terminated 
by inundations. Mr. Maier, in his interesting work on 
the Religious Ideas of Nations, observes, that, accord- 
ing to the doctrine of the Banians, the first generation 
was destroyed by the waters ; and the second perished 
by the effect of tempests : that in the third age the 
3 ’^ awning earth swallowed up the human race ; — and 
that the fourth age will terminate by fire. (Friedrich 
Maier, Mythologisches Taschenbuch, tom. ii, p. 299; 
and Allgemeines Mythol. Lexicon, tom. ii, p. 471.) 
This doctrine, except in the order of the catastrophes, 
offers a striking analogy with the Mexican tradition. 
Page 46. Tlacahuepancuexcotzin. Nothing strikes 
Europeans mcfte in the Azteck, Nahuatl, or Mexican 
language, than the excessive length of the words. This 
length does not always depend, as some learned men 
have pretended, on the circumstance, that the words 
are compounded, as in the Greek, the German, and the 
Sanscrit, but on the manner of forming the substantive, 
the plural, or the superlative. A kiss is called teten- 
namiquiliztliy a word formed from the verb tennamiqui^ 
to embrace, and the additive particles te and liztli. In 
