[669] Ibid., vol. viii, p. 69.
[670] Ibid., vol. vi, pp. 163 et seq.
[671] Ibid., vol. vi, p. 167.
[672] Ibid., vol. viii, p. 248.
[673] Mex. Antiq., vol. vi, p. 125; Codex Telleriano-Remensis, pl. xix; Mex. Antiq., vol. vii, pp. 240–1, and Duran, MS., part ii, cap. 20; see further, Mex. Antiq., vol. vi, pp. 135–218.
[674] Mex. Antiq., vol. vi, pp. 121–2. He cites several authors to prove this sweeping statement, and is not content with finding it among the Indians, but is provoked by his zeal to discover the practice of the same rite among the Hottentots. See Ibid., vol. vi, pp. 272, 333–5; vol. viii, pp. 143, 391, 20. On page 393, vol vi, he makes this remarkable statement: “From an examination of some of the Mexican paintings, it would appear that circumcision among the Indians was not confined to the human species.” Also vol. viii, p. 155: “The head of the Totonac high-priest, was anointed by the blood of circumcised children.”
[675] Mex. Antiq., vol. vi, p. 273; vol. viii, pp. 157, 236, 160.
[676] Ibid., vol. vi, p. 504.
[677] Ibid., vol. vi, p. 361.
[678] Ibid., vol. vi, p. 257.