FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1]: See Appendix to vol. i.
[Footnote 2]: See Appendix to vol. i.
[Footnote 3]: Undoubtedly caoutchouc, or India-rubber.
[Footnote 4]: While these pages were passing through the press the author had an opportunity of conferring with Mr. Schoolcraft, a gentleman well known for his researches into the character and habits of our North American Indians, and was favoured by him with an interesting communication on the subject of the print of the red hand, which will be found in the Appendix, and for which the author here takes occasion to offer his acknowledgments.
[Footnote 5]: From the year 144 of the vulgar era up to 217.
[Footnote 6]: From 218 until 360.
[Footnote 7]: From 260 until 432.
[Footnote 8]: From 432 until 576.
[Footnote 9]: From 576 until 888.
[Footnote 10]: From 888 until 936.
[Footnote 11]: From 926 until 1176.
[Footnote 12]: From 1176 until 1258, in which was the defeat.
[Footnote 13]: From 1258 until 1272.
[Footnote 14]: From 1272 until 1368, the date of the destruction of Mayapan. And the following, from 1368 to 1392.
[Footnote 15]: From 1392 until 1488.
[Footnote 16]: From 1488 until 1512.
[Footnote 17]: From 1512 until 1536, which concluded the eleventh epoch; the following one beginning in 1536, and concluding in the year 1560.