Is there no old chart or writing, in your collection of curiosities and relics, that might throw light on it ?" "The scriptures of Anahuac were of the hieroglyphic type,--picture-writing," replied the other.

"No, I fear there is nothing to the purpose; and if there were, I shouldn't know how to decipher it." "But, papa, the tunic!" exclaimed Miriam.
"Oh! has the tunic anything to do with it ?" "Is that the queer woollen garment with the gold embroidery ?" inquired the professor, becoming more interested.

"I took a fancy to that, you remember.

Has it a story ?" "Well, it is a kind of an anomaly, I believe," the general answered, looking up at his daughter with a smile.

"The Aztecs, you are aware, dressed chiefly in cotton.