FOOTNOTES:
[124-1] A. D'Orbigny, _L'Homme Americain_, i. p. 240.
[125-1] Rivero and Tschudi, _Peruvian Antiquities_, 162, after J. Acosta.
[125-2] Narrative of _Oceola Nikkanoche, Prince of Econchatti_, p. 141;
Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iv. p. 650.
[126-1] The term in Maya is _caput zihil_, corresponding exactly to the
Latin _renasci_, to be re-born, Landa, _Rel. de Yucatan_, p. 144.
[126-2] Dumont, _Mems. Hist. sur la Louisiane_, i. p. 233.
[127-1] Acosta, _Hist. of the New World_, lib. v. cap. 25.
[127-2] _Senate Report on Condition of Indian Tribes_, p. 358:
Washington, 1867.
[128-1] Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva Espana_, lib. vi. cap. 37.
[128-2] Ternaux-Compans, _Pieces rel. a la Conq. du Mexique_, p. 233.
[128-3] Velasco, _Hist. de la Royaume de Quito_, p. 106, and others.
[128-4] Whipple, _Rep. on the Indian Tribes_, p. 35. I am not sure that
this practice was of native growth to the Cherokees. This people have
many customs and traditions strangely similar to those of Christians and
Jews.
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