Might there not, possibly, be descendants But the Spaniards, when first discovering andĬonquering that district, are said to have come upon dwellings then still occupied. To be sure, no survivors of the race that had once inhabited those dwellings. Within the territory of the United States there were, Mountain-sides, accessible in many cases only with the aid of ladders. Heard of the wonderful cliff-dwellings in the Southwest of the United States, of entire villages built in caverns on steep I first conceived the idea of an expedition to Mexico while on a visit to London in 1887. People that the study of savage and barbaric races has since become my life’s work. Thus it came about that for over a year I spent most of my time in the company of the cannibalisticīlacks of that region, camping and hunting with them and during this adventurous period I became so interested in these primitive
Soon perceived that it would be impracticable for me to hunt for zoological specimens without first securing the assistance In the course of my travels in Australia, and especially after my arrival at Upper Herbert River in Northern Queensland, I This Work Is Respectfully Dedicated As a Token of Gratitude and Regard President of the American Museum of Natural History of New York
Member of the Society of Sciences of Norway Associé Étranger de la Société de l’Anthropologie de Paris Author of “Among Cannibals,” Etc. A Record of Five Years’ Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco