When we arrived off the mouth of the port of Havannah we formed our fleet of prizes into line and passed between the castles in triumph: our movements being watched by thousands of the Spanish inhabitants as we took up our anchorage in the centre of the harbour.

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“Work in Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology,” by Cyrus Thomas, Washington, 1887.

[98]

“The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, Historically Considered,” by Lucien Carr, Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Mass.

[99]

See Note, chapter iv., p. 69.

[100]

In the sixteenth century, the Cherokees occupied the lands in that part of America where the States of North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia border upon the State of Tennessee.

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