[122] Boas, Die Tsimshian, p. 237. [↑]
[123] Meares, as quoted by Bancroft, p. 188. [↑]
[124] Brown, Adventures of John Jewitt, pp. 130, 201. [↑]
[127] Letourneau also seems to consider slavery foreign to the way of life of these tribes. He has not, however, recourse to a hypothetical former agricultural state, but to the great ethnological pons asinorum, derivation (pp. 132, 134). But he does not inform us whence slavery can have been derived. Perhaps from the inland tribes who, as Letourneau himself proves to be aware, have no slaves? Or from the Siberians, who are rather in a lower than in a higher economic state as compared with the Indians of the Pacific Coast? Or from the Hindus or any other mythical early visitors of America? [↑]
[128] Brown, Adventures of John Jewitt, p. 130. [↑]