[182] I had this fact from the mouth of M. de Lesseps, on his return from a journey to Khartûm.
[183] J. Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage, p. 548, 1835.
[184] Emanuel Zobrega wrote to the Company from Brazil, in 1552:—“The inhabitants acknowledge Saint Thomas, whom they call Zomé (changing the Th into Z, according to their dialect); and they have a tradition that he once journeyed through this country.” His letter is fully given by Nieremberg, Historia Naturæ, fol., Antuerpiæ, 1635.
[185] “On the Intellectual Character of the Esquimaux” (Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xxxviii, p. 306, October 1844 to April 1845.)
[186] L’Immortalité de l’âme chez les Juifs, transl. by I. Cohen, 12mo, Paris, 1857.
[187] See Brecher, L’Immortalité de l’âme chez les Juifs, p. 81.
[188] Josephus, Antiquities, xviii, ch. 2, transl. by D. G. Génébrard, Paris, 1639.
[189] Chapter upon the “Nirvâna.”
[190] Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, Bouddha et sa Religion, chapter upon the “Nirvâna,” 1862.
[191] Niebuhr quoted, in support of this, the Nalhkis and the Guaranis in the New Californian and Cape Missions. Schlegel (Essais, p. 341, Paris, 1841) declares, that most savage nations ought always to remain so by the will of nature.