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Title: Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906
Subjects: Indians -- Antiquities Guatemala -- Antiquities Mexico -- Antiquities North America -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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e men in the neighbourhood, but after the deathof his daughter he said that he was happy becauseno one had yet bought his bells, for he was conse-quently able to give them to her, and they were putby the childs side and buried. The father andmother then built round the grave a wooden fence tokeep the wolves away, as the Pawnees were going tomove their tents to a distant part of the country.This fence was shortly afterwards destroyed by aprairie fire, and the place of the grave is not nowknown. These fires are becoming less frequent and, whenthey occur, are attributable to carelessness. I hap-pened to see one of them sweeping over the plainsnear the river Missouri, my position at the timebeing at right angles to the line of its direction. Ahigh wind was blowing from the South-west and thetall grass was bent over in such a manner that theflames instead of going with the wind towards theNorth-east, caught the tops of the grass and con-sequently travelled steadily to windward in the teeth
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Pawnee Woman. PRAIRIES. 137 of the gale. The smoke rolled away to leeward indense clouds and the flames leapt upwards on tonguesof fire to heights of twenty or thirty feet. Themovement forward was like that of the rapidly ad-vancing crest of a breaking wave. I estimated thelength of the front of the fire to be nearly two miles. When wandering over the wide Iowa and Nebraskaplains, many problems present themselves to the mindwith regard to their formation and existing condition.Of these, none are so perplexing to the farmers asthose which relate to the absence of trees. Severaltheories have been mooted and many conclusionshave been adopted, and thought to be rational, butas a rule they cannot be accepted as being altogethersatisfactory. One of the most general opinions, isthat the treeless state of the land has been causedby the destructive effects of fire. Another opinionis that which attributes the greatest counteractinginfluence to the nature of the soil. One of the most careful inv

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