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I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

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But the art of making sugar, it is said, never was practiced by the aborigines of the West Indian islands, until they were settled by Europeans; nor by the Mexicans, or Peruvians

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These Indians wore close dresses of cotton, their waists being girded with a narrow cloth; in which, we observed that they exhibited more sense of decency than the natives in Cuba.

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I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

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and, tho’ I don’t suppose they excelled, or even equalled the Europeans in Building, Craving, or Painting; yet it shws a vast genius and uncommon Application, that they were able, in such Circumstances, and with no better Instruments, to perform any…

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Upon this, I must observe, that the Mexicans, who are charged with cowardice, had much more reason to be terrified by the cannon of the Spaniards than the Britons at the warlike implements of the Romans…

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Doctor Robertson, speaking of the Mexicans and Peruvians, whom he is not disposed to rank with those nations which merit the name of civilised, has the following remarks —"When compared with other parts of the new world, Mexico and Peru may be…

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As to the second class of American Indians, who formerly inhabited, and who yet inhabit Mexico and the country south of the lakes and west of the Mississippi, and who came over, as we have supposed, from the north-east parts of Asia; they seem, from…

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When was America Peopled? That America was peopled very anciently and soon after the flood, is very probable: 1. Because the aboriginal Americans, till they became acquainted with Europeans, were ignorant of those arts and inventions, such, among…

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I do not see what objections can arise against Motezuma’s dying on the Opera-Stage, breathing the language of harmony, when actors die on other stages in tragedy, speaking the language of the muses.

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since the Europeans possess’d themselves those Countries, and have been provided with all manner of Tools and Instruments to perform these Things in a better manner than the Indians could be supposed to do under many Disadvantages; it is no wonder,…

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