The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[422]. Ibid., p. 83.

[423]. Bancroft’s Native Races, “Civilized Nations,” II., 706 f.

[424]. See Bancroft’s Native Races and Antiquities, IV., 209 f., 314, 321, 323, 332, 338, 351, 531, 801, 803, 805. See also, Stephens’s Incidents of Travels in Yucatan, I., 137, 167–176, 303, 306, 403–407, 411–413; II., 42, 54, 56, 72, 122.

[425]. Chateaubraud’s Voyage en Amérique, pp. 130–136; cited in Frazer’s Golden Bough, II., 383.

[426]. Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, II., 206.

[427]. Ibid., II., 211 f.

[428]. Ibid., II., 207, illustration.

[429]. Ibid., II., 212 f.

[430]. Ellis’s Hist. of Madagascar, I., 176–187.

[431]. Ellis’s Through Hawaii, p. 73 f.