[142] Our word ‘glass’ derives from glese (gless, glessaria), applied by the old Germans to amber (Tacit. De Mor. Germ. cap. 45). Pliny (xxxvii. chap. 11) also notices glæsum (amber) and Glæsaria Island, by the natives called Austeravia.
[143] Stephens, Yucatan, i. 100.
[144] The curious and artistic rock inscriptions and engravings of the South African Bushmen were traced in outline by triangular flint-flakes mounted on sticks to act as chisels. The subjects were either simple figures; cows, gnus, and antelopes, a man’s bust and a woman carrying a load; or compositions, as ostrich and rider, a jackal chasing a gazelle, or a rhinoceros hunting an ostrich.
[145] See Chap. I.
[146] Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde, par M. Louis Choris, Peintre, 1822.
[147] Trans. Ethno. Soc. vols. i. and ii. p. 290.
[148] Quoted by Col. Lane Fox, Prim. War. i. 25.
[149] Prehistoric Man, by Daniel Wilson (vol. i. pp. 216–17).
[150] Incidents of Travel in Central America, &c., p. 51; by J. Lloyd Stephens. The work is highly interesting, because it shows Egypt in Central America. Compare the Copan Pyramid with that of Sakkarah; the Cynocephalus head (i. 135) with those of Thebes; the beard, a tuft on the chin; the statue and its headdress (ii. 349); the geese-breeding at the palace (ii. 316); the central cross (ii. 346) which denotes the position of the solstices and the equinoxes and the winged globe at Ocosingo (ii. 259). In Yucatan the Agave Americana took the place of the papyrus for paper-making. Indo-China also appears in the elephant-trunk ornaments (i. 156).
[151] Prim. War. ii. p. 25.