Young folks' history of the United States . PUEBLO BUILDING, AS IT NOW APPEARS. Perhaps the Mound-Builders will always remain a good Possibledeal of a mystery. They may have come from Asia, orhave been the descendants of Asiatics accidentally caston the American shore. Within the last hundred yearsno less than forty Japanese vessels have been drivenacross the Pacific Ocean by storms, and wrecked onthe Pacific coast of North America; and this may have 12 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. happened as easily a thousand years ago as a is certain that some men among the Mound-Buildershad reache
Young folks' history of the United States . PUEBLO BUILDING, AS IT NOW APPEARS. Perhaps the Mound-Builders will always remain a good Possibledeal of a mystery. They may have come from Asia, orhave been the descendants of Asiatics accidentally caston the American shore. Within the last hundred yearsno less than forty Japanese vessels have been drivenacross the Pacific Ocean by storms, and wrecked onthe Pacific coast of North America; and this may have 12 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. happened as easily a thousand years ago as a is certain that some men among the Mound-Buildershad reached the sea in their travels; for on some oftheir carved pipes there are representations of the sealand of the manati, or sea-cow, — animals which they. PUEBLO BUILDING, RESTORED. could only have seen by travelling very far to the eastor west, or else by descending the Mississippi River toOur limited its mouth. But wc know neither whence they came norof them. ^^ whither they went. Very few human bones have beenfound among the mounds; and those found had almostcrumbled into dust. We only know that the Mound-Builders came, and built wonderful works, and thenmade way for another race, of whose origin we knowalmost as little. CHAPTER 111 THE AMERICAN INDIANS. WHEN the first European explorers visited the Appear-Atlantic coast of North America, they found ^^^it occupied byroving tribes ofmen very unlikeEuropeans inaspect. Theywere of a cop-per-color, withhigh cheek-bones, smallblack eyes, andstraight blackhair. Theycalled them-selves by vari-ous names indifferent parts of the country, such as Mohegans, Pequots, Massachu- Namee ofsetts, Narragansetts, Hurons, and Wampanoags. But *^^^they almost all belonged to two great families, the Al-gon
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