[87.] Tour to the Lakes, 1827, p. 292.
[88.] Nat. Races of Pacific States, 1874, vol. i, pp. 731, 744.
[89.] Life Among the Choctaws, 1860, p. 294.
[90.] Bossu’s Travels (Forster’s translation), 1771, p. 38.
[91.] At the hour intended for the ceremony, they made the victims swallow little balls or pills of tobacco, in order to make them giddy, and as it were to take the sensation of pain from them; after that they were all strangled and put upon mats, the favorite on the right, the other wife on the left, and the others according to their rank.
[92.] The established distinctions among these Indians were as follows: The Suns, relatives of the Great Sun, held the highest rank; next come the Nobles; after them the Honorables; and last of all the common people, who were very much despised. As the nobility was propagated by the women, this contributed much to multiply it.
[93.] The Great Sun had given orders to put out all the fires, which is only done at the death of the sovereign.
[94.] Ten Years in Oregon, 1850, p. 261.
[95.] Nat. Races of Pacif. States, 1875, vol iii, p. 513.
[96.] Pilgrimage, 1828, vol. ii, p. 443.