[I-26] See [vol. iii., pp. 66-9], and comments in accompanying notes.
[I-27] Id., pp. 72-5.
[I-28] Id., p. 76.
[I-29] Id., pp. 78-9.
[I-30] Id., p. 86.
[I-31] Id., p. 88.
[I-32] Id., p. 89.
[I-33] Id., p. 103.
[I-34] Mackenzie's Voyages, p. cxviii.
[I-35] 'Ou plutôt deux femmes, portant le nom d'Ara,' says Brasseur de Bourbourg; I prefer, however, the original reading. The Ara is a kind of parroquet, common in South America, and so called because it continually repeats the cry ara, ara. Beings half bird, half woman, are as likely to figure in such a legend as the above as not. Besides, shortly afterwards the narrative speaks of 'les deux oiseaux,' referring to the aras.