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[259-2] D'Orbigny, _Annuaire des Voyages_, 1845, p. 77.
[259-3] Long's _Expedition_, i. p. 278.
[260-1] _Hist. des Incas_, lib. iii. chap. 7.
[260-2] _Hist. of the New World_, bk. v. chap. 7.
[261-1] _Travels in North America_, p. 280.
[261-2] Egede, _Nachrichten von Groenland_, p. 156.
CHAPTER X.
THE NATIVE PRIESTHOOD.
Their titles.--Practitioners of the healing art by supernatural
means.--Their power derived from natural magic and the exercise of
the clairvoyant and mesmeric faculties.--Examples.--Epidemic
hysteria.--Their social position.--Their duties as religious
functionaries.--Terms of admission to the Priesthood.--Inner
organization in various nations.--Their esoteric languages and
secret societies.
Thus picking painfully amid the ruins of a race gone to wreck centuries
ago, thus rejecting much foreign rubbish and scrutinizing each stone
that lies around, if we still are unable to rebuild the edifice in its
pristine symmetry and beauty, yet we can at least discern and trace the
ground plan and outlines of the fane it raised to God.
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