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VALLENCY, Colonel, ii. 175.
Vancouver, Fort, i. 199.

Vancouver's Island, ii. 345, 389.
Vanikoro, canoe of, i. 167.
Vasco de Gama, ii. 113, 115.

Vega, Garcilasso de la, i. 436; ii. 322.
Vespucci, Amerigo, ii. 158.
Vilcabamba, i. 291.
Vinland, ii. 160.

Vitruvian scroll, ii. 113, 115.

WABENAKIES, ii. 177.

Walla-wallas, ii. 247.

Wampanoags, ii. 150.
Wampum, i. 218, 443; ii. 147.
Warren, Dr. J. C., ii. 221, 223, 239.
Warren, Dr. J. M., ii. 221.
Washington, General, ii. 178.
Waterproof baskets, vide Baskets.
Waukesha, turtle mound at, i. 387.
Weaving, Peruvian, i. 441.
White dog, sacrifice of, i. 128.
Wills de Hass, Dr., ii. 184.

Wilson, Dr. G., i. 95, 282.
Wilson, Prof. H. H., ii. 449.
Wilson, R. A., i. 431.
Winnipeg, Lake, ii. 346.

Winthrope, Professor, ii. 175, 176.
Winthrops, Judge, ii. 175.
Wisconsin, antiquities of, i. 386.
World before the Flood, the, i. 95, 96.
Writing, origin of, ii. 123.
Writing, hieroglyphic, ii. 144.
Wyandots, ii. 365, vide Hurons.

YAULI, i. 293.

Year, Mexican, i. 422.
Yellow Stone river, ii. 83.

Yucatan, i. 422; ii. 52, 58, 62, 98, 104, 118,451.

ZACOTOLLAN, i. 302.

Zapotecs, ii. 251.

Zenteno, Father Tapia, ii. 443.

Zuni, Rio de, ii. 230.

Zunians, ii. 93.

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