. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Aztecs. >«. Quiches, Huaxtecs, Totonacs. Mems. Tarascans. Zapotecs, Mixtpcs. Opata-Cora. Otomi, &c Zoqué, Mixé Cborotegi. ^__^_i______^_^_^ 620 Miles. Lencas, ChoDtals, &'C. have become more or less assimilated to their Spanish rulers. Such are the Huaxtecs (Huastecos), that is, " Our Neighbours," so named in courtesy by the Aztecs, although, according to Pimentel, the term means " People of the Huaxi land," so called from a kind of fruit common in their territory. They occupy the northern part of the State of Vera Cruz,

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Aztecs. >«. Quiches, Huaxtecs, Totonacs. Mems. Tarascans. Zapotecs, Mixtpcs. Opata-Cora. Otomi, &c Zoqué, Mixé Cborotegi. ^__^_i______^_^_^ 620 Miles. Lencas, ChoDtals, &'C. have become more or less assimilated to their Spanish rulers. Such are the Huaxtecs (Huastecos), that is, " Our Neighbours," so named in courtesy by the Aztecs, although, according to Pimentel, the term means " People of the Huaxi land," so called from a kind of fruit common in their territory. They occupy the northern part of the State of Vera Cruz, and stretch thence northwards to the plains watered by the lower course of the Tampico river. The Huaxtecs are allied in race and speech to the Mayas of Yucatan, although no tradition survives of the events by which they became severed from their southern kinsfolk. Judging from the archaic form of their language, Stoll concludes that they were the first who became isolated from the primitive Maya group, and various names of places

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