[85-1] Mandans in Catlin, _Letts. and Notes_, i. p. 181.
[85-2] The Mayas, Cogolludo, _Hist. de Yucathan_, lib. iv. cap. 8.
[85-3] The Navajos, Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iv. p. 89.
[85-4] The Quiches, Ximenes, _Or. de los Indios_, p. 79.
[85-5] The Iroquois, Mueller, _Amer. Urreligionen_, p. 109.
[85-6] For these myths see Sepp, _Das Heidenthum und dessen Bedeutung fuer
das Christenthum_, i. p. 111 sqq. The interpretation is of course my own.
[87-1] Peter Martyr, _De Reb. Ocean._, Dec. iii., lib. ix. p. 195; Colon,
1574.
[87-2] Ibid., Dec. iii., lib. x. p. 202.
[87-3] Florida was also long supposed to be the site of this wondrous
spring, and it is notorious that both Juan Ponce de Leon and De Soto had
some lurking hope of discovering it in their expeditions thither. I have
examined the myth somewhat at length in _Notes on the Floridian
Peninsula, its Literary History, Indian Tribes, and Antiquities_, pp. 99,
100: Philadelphia, 1859.
[88-1] Sahagun, _Hist.
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