The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . ctof which (it is enough to make the mouth of the dipsomaniacwater) lasts for three days and leaves no headache behind it !The wild flowers are for the most part small. Amid theruined cities you almost always find quantities of the smallyellow flower, called by the Mayans xcanlol, of the Tecomastaiis, a shrubby climber. The woodland paths everywhereare bright with the jasmine-like amapola ; while the roadsidesare made more picturesque by a climber bearing white sweet-smelling flowers. At Chichen there was much Salvia coccinea,a small brillia
The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . ctof which (it is enough to make the mouth of the dipsomaniacwater) lasts for three days and leaves no headache behind it !The wild flowers are for the most part small. Amid theruined cities you almost always find quantities of the smallyellow flower, called by the Mayans xcanlol, of the Tecomastaiis, a shrubby climber. The woodland paths everywhereare bright with the jasmine-like amapola ; while the roadsidesare made more picturesque by a climber bearing white sweet-smelling flowers. At Chichen there was much Salvia coccinea,a small brilliant scarlet-flowered shrub called by the nativeszic xin. Here again we saw Heliotropium parvifloriim, whichthe Indians call xnaheax. In the woods you see many orchidsgrowing like mistletoe on the trees. Among the genera metwith, the Oncidium and Efiidcndrum are the commonest, andof these the species Schomburgkia tibicina and the Epidtudntmbicoruntum are those oftenest found. We saw very few wildferns. Here and there are beautiful flowering INDEX Acacia, 384 Acanceh, village, Indian ruins at, 188 Agave Americana (Maguey), 20, 362 Agave Sisalensis. See Henequen Agouti, 374 Aguilar, Jeronimo, 48, 82 Akad-zib, Chichen, 103 Algonkins and Toltec Theory, 246 Alligators, 375 ; carved heads of, inruins, importance of, 268 Alphabet, Mayan, attempts to com-pose, 299 Americas first architects, Who were?,257 American Man, age of, 260 Ants, 377 Anuradhapura, ruins of, Ceylon, 263 Apalachians, 245 : Mayans branchof, 254 Arawaks, in Cuba, 254 Armadillos, 374 Astronomy, Mayan knowledge of, 314 Athapascans, Aztecs branch of, 245 Aztecs, arrival in Mexico, 247 ; raidsinto Honduras, 225 ; influence onMayans, 296 Bancroft, H., on Mexican priests, 275 Bats, 374 Behring Straits, Was America peopled via ?, 260Bharahat, Stupa of, hand as sym-bolic decoration on, 266Biologia Centrali Americana, A. P. Maudslays account of Quirigua in, 213 ; Mayan decorative art in, 269Birds of Yucatan, 380Boro
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