[91]. The reference is to Girolamo Benzoni, and his book, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, published in Venice, 1572.
[92]. Kingsborough says that the Mexicans had a name for God—Tezcatlipca.
[93]. Kingsborough says that Adair’s dislike of Romanists leads to unfair comments on their historians; and wonders what translation of Roman Adair could have consulted in which it was possible to find so great an absurdity as is here stated on Roman’s authority.
[94]. Kingsborough points out a mistake in the insertion of “not,” p. 370, n. 44.
[95]. Adair was ignorant of the nature of the llama, to which species of animals the Spaniards gave the name “sheep.” (Kingsborough, n. 47.)
[96]. Published his Noticias Americanas in 1772, but seems not to be rated high on the history of the very early Indians. Adair’s reference to this work, published only three years before his own, shows that his MSS. must have been added to, and perhaps after he reached London, for the purpose of bringing it out.
[97]. The reference is to Thomas Thorowgood’s book entitled “Jews in America, or Probabilities, that those Indians are Judaical, made more probable by some Additionals to the former Conjectures. An Accurate Discourse is promised by Mr. John Elliot, (who first preached the gospel to the Natives in their own Language) touching their Origination, and his Vindication of the Planters. Sm. 4th, London: Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivie-Lane. 1660.” The book is rare, selling for $200.00 a copy in 1930.
[98]. Lord Kingsborough, note 51, calls attention to the well-known fact that William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, entertained the same belief. The children of the Indians reminded Penn of the children of Jews in their quarter of London, known as Old Jewry.
[99]. See note p. 210 ante.
[100]. Kingsborough adds: “Pedro Simon observes that it was customary amongst some of the Indian Tribes for men, after the confinement of their wives, to feign sickness and to receive visitors reclining in bed.” Note 57, p. 374. The same thing is noticed by a later writer.