part iii, p. 112.
[Footnote 5.53: Contrib. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol iii, p. 169.]
[Footnote 5.54: Amer. Naturalist, November, 1878, p. 753.]
[Footnote 5.55: Proc. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1867-’76, p. 64.]
[Footnote 5.56: Pre-historic Races, 1873, p. 149.]
[Footnote 5.57: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 1874, p. 168.]
[Footnote 5.58: Amer. Naturalist, Sept., 1878, p. 629.]
[Footnote 5.59: Explorations of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852, p. 43.]
[Footnote 5.60: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific, 1831, vol. i, p. 332.]
[Footnote 5.61: Nat. Races of Pac. States, 1871, vol. i, p. 780.]
[Footnote 5.62: Am. Antiq. and Discov., 1838, p. 286.]
[Footnote 5.63: Nat. Races of Pac. States, 1874 vol. i, p. 69.]
[Footnote 5.64: Travels in Alaska, 1869, p. 100.]
[Footnote 5.65: Alaska and its Resources, 1870, pp. 19, 132, 145.]
[Footnote 5.66: Life on the Plains, 1854, p. 68.]
[Footnote 5.67: Tour to the Lakes, 1827, p. 305.]
[Footnote 5.68: Long’s Exped. to the St. Peter’s River, 1824, p. 332.]
[Footnote 5.69: L’incertitude des signes de la Mort, 1742, tome i, p. 475, _et seq._]
[Footnote 5.70: The writer is informed by Mr. John Henry Boner that the custom still prevails not only in Pennsylvania, but at the Moravian settlement of Salem, N.C.]
[Footnote 5.71: Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1866, p. 319.]
[Footnote 5.72: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1874, v. ii, p. 774, _et seq._]
[Footnote 5.73: Hist. of Florida, 1775, p. 88.]
[Footnote 5.74: Antiquities of the Southern Indians, 1873, p. 105.]
[Footnote 5.75: Bartram’s Travels, 1791, p. 516.]
[Footnote 5.76: “Some ingenious men whom I have conversed with have given it as their opinion that all those pyramidal artificial hills, usually called Indian mounds, were raised on this occasion, and are generally sepulchers. However, I am of different opinion.”]
[Footnote 5.77: League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 173.]
[Footnote 5.78: Myths of the New World, 1868, p. 255.]
[Footnote 5.79: Hist. N. A. Indians, 1844, i, p. 90.]
[Footnote 5.80: Northwest Coast, 1857, p. 185.]
[Footnote 5.81: Cont. N. A. Ethnol., 1877, i., p. 200.]
[Footnote 5.82: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol. i, p. 483.]
[Footnote 5.83: Exploration Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, 1859, p. 48.]
[Footnote 5.84: Hist. North American Indians, 1844, vol. ii, p. 141.]
[Footnote 5.85: Mœurs des Sauvages, 1724, tome ii, p. 406.]
[Footnote 5.86: Autobiography of James Beckwourth, 1856, p. 269.]
[Footnote 5.87: Tour to the Lakes, 1827, p. 292.]
[Footnote 5.88: Nat. Races of Pacific States, 1874, vol. i, pp. 731, 744.]
[Footnote 5.89: Life Among the Choctaws, 1860, p. 294.]
[Footnote 5.90: Bossu’s Travels (Forster’s translation), 1771, p. 38.]
[Footnote 5.91: At the hour intended for the ceremony, they made the victims swallow little balls or pills of tobacco, in order to make them giddy, and as it were to take the sensation of pain from them; after that they were all strangled and put upon mats, the favorite on the right, the other wife on the left, and the others according to their rank.]
[Footnote 5.92: The established distinctions among these Indians were as follows: The Suns, relatives of the Great Sun, held the highest rank; next come the Nobles; after them the Honorables; and last of all the common people, who were very much despised. As the nobility was propagated by the women, this contributed much to multiply it.]
[Footnote 5.93: The Great Sun had given orders to put out all the fires, which is only done at the death of the sovereign.]
[Footnote 5.94: Ten Years in Oregon, 1850, p. 261.]
[Footnote 5.95: Nat. Races of Pacif. States, 1875, vol iii, p. 513.]
[Footnote 5.96: Pilgrimage, 1828, vol. ii, p. 443.]
[Footnote 5.97: Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition, 1860, ii, p. 164.]
[Footnote 5.98: League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 287.]
[Footnote 5.99: Cont. to North American Ethnol., 1878, iii, p. 164.]
[Footnote 5.100: Am. Antiq., April, May, June, 1879, p. 251.]
[Footnote 5.101: Pilgrimage, 1828, ii, p. 308.]
[Footnote 5.102: Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851,