Footnotes
[1]. Gen. 6:4.
[2]. Gen. 11.
[3]. Gen. 11:9.
[4]. Gen. 11:8.
[5]. See Book of Ether, chs. 1, 2, 3, 4.
[6]. Conquest of Mexico, vol. II, pp. 386, 387, Prescott.
[7]. Conquest of Mexico, vol. II, p. 187, note, Prescott.
[8]. The suggestion of Nadaillac in this clause in parenthesis to the effect that this tradition of the Tower of Babel had its origin in the Christian teachings imparted to Ixtlilxochitl, will receive consideration at the conclusion of this series of quotations on the subject of the Tower of Babel, etc.
[9]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 526.
[10]. Native Races, vol. III, pp. 67, 68. For this statement Bancroft in a foot note quotes the following authorities: Boturini, Idea de una Hist., pp. 113, 114; id., Catalogo, pp. 39, 40; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. 1, pp. 129, 130, tom. 2, p. 16; Spiegazione delle Tavole del Codice Mexicano (Vàcano) tav. 7, in Kingsborough's Mex. Ant., vol. V, pp. 164, 165; Gemelli Carreri, in Churchill's Col. Voy., vol. IV, p. 481; Humboldt, Vues des Cordilleres, tom. 1, pp. 114, 115, tom. 2, pp. 175-8; Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 276, 277; Gondra, in Prescott, Conquesta de Mexico, tom. 3, pp. 1-10. The remainder of Bancroft's note following this citation of authorities, wherein he seeks to discredit the force of these native traditions concerning the Tower, the confusion of tongues and the dispersion of mankind, as in the case of Nadaillac's effort of a similar character, remarked in a previous note, will receive consideration at the close of this series of quotations concerning the Tower, etc., p. 273.
[11]. America Before Columbus, P. De Roo, vol. I, pp. 415, 416.
[12]. America Before Columbus, P. De Roo, vol. I, pp. 417, 418.
[13]. Should any one desire to make a larger collection I refer him to the authorities already referred to in a previous note on a passage from Bancroft; as also Nadaillac's Pre-Historic America, ch. 10; P. De Roo, America Before Columbus, vol. I, chapters sixteen to twenty inclusive; and Rivero & Tschudi's Peruvian Antiquities, chapter VII.
[14]. Native Races, vol. V, p. 12.
[15]. Pre-Historic America, p. 530. For the objections of the agnostic Bancroft see Native Races, vol. III, 68, 69, note; and for the objections urged by Prescott see Conquest of Mexico, vol. II, appendix, p. 387.
[16]. Pre-Historic America, pp. 525, 531.
[17]. Ante., p. 436.
[18]. Exodus, 14.
[19]. Ante., pp. 435, 436.
[20]. Ante., p. 436.
[21]. Ante., p. 436. Ibid.
[22]. Ether 3:1.
[23]. Ether 2:16.
[24]. Ether 6:20.
[25]. Ether 6:16.
[26]. Ether 1:35.
[27]. Ether 1:37.
[28]. Ether 6:4, 5.
[29]. Ether 6:4, 5.
[30]. Ether 2:6, 7.
[31]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 261.
[32]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 523.
[33]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 272.
[34]. Dupaix, quoted by Bancroft, Native Races, vol. V, p. 31.
[35]. Peruvian Antiquities, Tschudi, p. 24.
[36]. American Ethnology and Sociology, vol. I, p. 179.
[37]. This place, according to Sahagun, is the first home of the Nahua nation. It is definitely located, says Bancroft, (Native Races, vol. V, p. 191) down the coast from Panuco, in the province of Guatemala.
[38]. Native Races, Bancroft, vol. V, p. 189.
[39]. Native Races, Bancroft, vol. V, p. 220.
[40]. Native Races, Bancroft, vol. V, pp. 546, 547.
[41]. Ante., p. 463, et seq.
[42]. Native Races, Bancroft, vol. V, pp. 564, 566. Stephens also relates this tradition at length, see Central America, vol. II, pp. 172, 173.
[43]. II Nephi 5: 18.
[44]. Jacob 1:11; Mosiah 25:13.
[45]. Omni 1:1-23.
[46]. Alma 8:7.
[47]. I Nephi 2:5.
[48]. Exod. 6:21.
[49]. I Chronicles 5:19.
[50]. Nehemiah 7:52, see also margin.
[51]. Ezra 2:50.
[52]. Gen. 30:8.
[53]. Joshua 15:9.
[54]. Peruvian Antiquities, Tschudi, pp. 52, 53. See also Baldwin, Ancient America, p. 264.
[55]. II Nephi 5:15, 17.
[56]. Jacob 1:11.
[57]. Jacob 1:9.
[58]. Jacob 1:11.
[59]. Mosiah 25:13.
[60]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 523.
[61]. I Nephi 16:10, 16.
[62]. Alma 37:39, 40.
[63]. Conquest of Peru, vol. I, p. 31.
[64]. Peru, Travel and Exploration in the Lands of the Incas, pp. 301, 331.
[65]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, p. 174.
[66]. See their associations with the events as given by Ixtlilxochitl, quoted by Bancroft, Native Races, vol. V, pp. 19, 21, and 208-218.
[67]. Concerning which more later.
[68]. See Book of Alma 46:40.
[69]. Pre-Historic America, Nadaillac, pp. 275, 277.
[70]. See Helaman 6:7-13, see also p. 124.
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