[583]. “Au surplus au refrein de chacune pose.”
[584]. Histoire de la nouvelle France, Paris, MDCIX. See pp. 691 ff. On the title-page he declares himself “témoin oculaire d’une partie des choses ici recitées.”
[585]. Mœurs des Sauvages Ameriquians, Comparées aux Mœurs des Premières Temps, ... 2 vols., 4to, Paris, 1724. See II. 321. Lafitau spent five years in a mission in Canada, and also got information from a brother Jesuit of sixty years’ experience in the new world (I. 2). It was this book which moved Dr. John Brown, a century and a half ago, to write his essay on the history of poetry and music, and to use so effectively the comparative method in literature.
[586]. Ibid., II. 395.
[587]. Anf. d. K., p. 229.
[588]. Indian Tribes, IV. 71, question 254 (see I. 556): “Is it the custom to call on certain persons for these laments? Are the laments themselves of a poetic character?” Answered by Mr. Fletcher for the Winnebago Indians.
[589]. Ibid., answer to question 253.
[590]. Three Years’ Travel through the Interior Parts of North America (1766-1768), Philadelphia, 1796. See p. 179.
[591]. Rep. Bureau Ethnol., I. 194 f.
[592]. Wallaschek, Prim. Mus., p. 54.