. Gli abitanti del mondo; o, uomini, animali e piante; essendo un popolare conto delle razze e nazioni dell'umanità, del passato e del presente, e gli animali e le piante che popolano le grandi continenti e isole principali. ammorsate. Il sudore-case di queste persone sono in-teresting e importante. Eachtown ha molti di questi semi-sotterranei, detto toanswer lo scopo del bagno,camera di consiglio e Chiesa.Essi dipingere la parete del thesehouses con piante e animalsand geroglifica gruppi. Il Pueblo sono agricul-tari per taluni tribù, usando irrigazione, e avendo fatto notevoli progressi di inmethods
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. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. vised. The sweat-houses of these people are in-teresting and important. Eachtown has several of these half-subterranean rooms, said toanswer the purpose of bath, council chamber, and church.They paint the wall of thesehouses with plants and animalsand hieroglyphic groups. The Pueblos are agricul-tural tribes, using irrigation, and having made considerable advances inmethods of cultivation. They are remarkable for personal cleanliness aswell as for the neatness of their houses. They may well have dreadedthe onsets of their wild neighbours the Navajos and Apaches, and soughtto entrench themselves against them; and they state that their townshave always successfully resisted assault. A system of government wasdeveloped by this people, a governor and council being elected annuallyby each town, and all affairs being decided by discussion and vote in thebath-house. Among the Moquis the office of chief governor was hereditary, but in other respects the government resembled that of the Pueblos.. PRAUtlE INDIAN HUT. 762 THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. Marriage among these people is arranged by the girls, who selecttheir mates and afterwards consult their own fathers. The father of thebridegroom has to pay a compensation to the girls father. Intermarriageis frequent in the villages. The morals of young people are carefullylooked after by a sort of secret police. No one is permitted to marry orto sell goods out of his native town without permission of the elders.Women do all the household and much of the out-door work; but theirtreatment of their children is very kind and sensible. The Pueblos are among the most rehgious of the Indians, and holdin much reverence an ancestral or mythological personage known asMontezuma. They perpetually watch the fire of the sweat-h
