[365] Mendieta’s Hist. Eccles. Ind., p. 108 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20.
[366] Acosta’s Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind., Bk. V., chap. 27, cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 26.
[367] Herrera’s Gen. Hist. of America, II., 379; cited in Dorman’s Orig. of Prim. Supers., p. 152 f.
[368] Acosta’s Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind., Bk. V., chap. 23; cited in Prescott’s Conquest of Peru, I., 108, note.
[369] Herrera’s Gen. Hist., III., 207 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20.
[370] Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20. See also Southey’s Hist. of Brazil, II., 370.
[371] Contra Apionem, II., 7.
[372] See pages [105] f., [132], supra.
[373] See Clark’s Indian Sign Language, s. v., “Feast.”
[374] “Should he fail [to eat his portion], the host would be outraged, the community shocked, and the spirits roused to vengeance. Disaster would befall the nation—death, perhaps, the individual.” “A feaster unable to do his full part, might, if he could, hire another to aid him; otherwise he must remain in his place till the work was done.” (Parkman’s Jesuits in No. Am., p. xxxviii.)