[216-3] At least this is the doctrine of one of the Shastas. The race, it teaches, has been destroyed four times; first by water, secondly by winds, thirdly the earth swallowed them, and lastly fire consumed them (Sepp., Heidenthum und Christenthum, i. p. 191).
[217-1] Echevarria y Veitia, Hist. de la Nueva España, lib. i. cap. 4, in Waitz.
[217-2] Brasseur, Hist. du Mexique, iii. p. 495.
[218-1] The contrary has indeed been inferred from such expressions of the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes as, “that which hath been, is now, and that which is to be, hath already been” (chap. iii. 15), and the like, but they are susceptible of an application entirely subjective.
[218-2] Voluspa, xiv. 51, in Klee, Le Deluge.
[219-1] Natur. Quæstiones, iii. cap. 27.
[220-1] Velasco, Hist. du Royaume du Quito, p. 105; Navarrete, Viages, iii. p. 444.
[220-2] Rel. de la Nouv. France, An 1637, p. 54; Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, i. p. 319, iv. p. 420.
[220-3] Schoolcraft, ibid., iv. p. 240.
[221-1] Cogolludo, Hist. de Yucathan, lib. iv. cap. 7.