The Myths of the New World / A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

by Daniel G. Brinton

[144-3] Narrative of John Tanner, p. 161.

[144-4] Loskiel, Ges. der Miss. der evang. Brüder, p. 55.

[144-5] Nar. of John Tanner, p. 351.

[144-6] Sahagun, Hist. Nueva España, lib. vi. cap. 4.

[145-1] Letts. Edifiantes et Curieuses, iv. p. 104, Oviedo; Hist. du Nicaragua, p. 49; Gumilla, Hist. del Orinoco, ii. cap. 2.

[145-2] Oviedo, Hist. Gen. de las Indias, p. 16, in Barcia’s Hist. Prim.

[145-3] Presdt’s Message and Docs. for 1851, pt. iii. p. 506.

[146-1] Sahagun, Hist. de la Nueva España, i. cap. 13.

[147-1] Voyage Pittoresque dans le Yucatan, p. 49.

[147-2] Davila Padilla, Hist. de la Prov. de Santiago de Mexico, lib. ii. cap. 88 (Brusselas, 1625); Palacios, Des. de Guatemala, p. 40; Garcia, Or. de los Indios, p. 124. To such an extent did the priests of the Algonkin tribes who lived near Manhattan Island carry their austerity, such uncompromising celibates were they, that it is said on authority as old as 1624, that they never so much as partook of food prepared by a married woman. (Doc. Hist. New York, iv. p. 28.)