Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 30
edrum is ugly enough to frighten the demons,even if it did not make any noise. The skin,stretched over a wooden frame, is coloredbright yellow, and the figure of a beast, whichlooks like the cat that little boys and girls drawupon their slates, is drawn with heavy blacklines. The Indians think that… … Hindoo £>r-m - The Aztecs, who inhabited Mexico whenCortez and his Spanish army landed on theshores of that country in the early days ofthe sixteenth century, were in many ways anenlightened nation. It is true that their reli-gion was horrible. They worshiped hideousstone idols, and had human…
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