Section 3. Narrative Literature
Desire of preserving national history.
Eskimo legends and narratives.
The Walum Olum of the Delawares.
The Iroquois Book of Rites.
Kaondinoketc's Narrative.
The National Legend of the Creeks.
Cherokee writings.
Destruction of Ancient Literature.
Boturini's collection.
Historians in Nahuatl.
The Maya Books of Chilan Balam.
Other Maya documents.
Writings in Cakchiquel.
The Memorial de Tecpan Atitlan.
Authors in Cakchiquel and Kiche.
The Popol Vuh.
Votan, the Tzendal.
Writers in Qquichua.
Letters, etc., in native tongues.
Tales and stories of the Tupis and other tribes.
Section 4. Didactic Literature
Progress of natives in science.
Their calendars and rituals.
Their maps.
Scholastic works.
Theological writers.
Sermons in Guarani.
Las Pasiones.
Section 5. Oratorical Literature
Native admiration of eloquence.
The Oratorical style.
Custom of set orations.
Specimens in the Nahuatl tongue.
Ancient prayers and rhapsodies.
Section 6. Poetical Literature
Form of the earliest poetry.
Unintelligible character of primitive songs explained.
A Chippeway love song.
A Taensa epithalamium.
Montaigne on Tupi poetry.
Ancient Aztec poetry.
Maya and Peruvian poems.
Tupi songs.
Section 7. Dramatic Literature
Development of the dramatic art in America.
Origin of the serious and comic dramas.
The Qquichua drama of Ollanta.
The Kiche drama of Rabinal Achi.
The Comic Ballet of the Gueegueence.
The Logas of Central America.
Dramas of the Mangues.