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Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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This belief of Dr. Chanca was fully confirmed in a very short time afterward, for
all those Indians soon became strong Catholics, the same as are the Indians still
remaining in all the Spanish-speaking countries of America.
Most of them were rough images of snakes, crocodiles and other creeping
animals. Their name for the evil spirit or devil was cemi. They had also speaking
gods, or oracles, and their augurs or priests were known as buhitis, who played,
besides, the same parts among them as the medicine-men of the Indians of these
northern regions of America. The religious songs of the Lucayans, which were also
their war songs to celebrate their victories—but not the war-dance or ghost-dance,
and songs, of the North American indigines before their battling against some foe—
and their funeral chants, when burying their dead caciques and noblemen, were
called areitos.
They found at last a convenient place. It was on the shore of a good bay, on
the north coast and upon high ground, with two rivers of potable water near by, and
the back part well closed by the thick growth of an impassible forest that protected
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