[32] See Bandelier, Islands of Titicaca and Koati, ch. I, and notes.
[33] They have some likeness to the carved stone found at Chavin in northern Peru, figured in Sir C. Markham's The Incas of Peru, p. 34. There was also found lately in a grave near Lima a textile fabric with a pattern resembling this.
[34] The arrow point may however have been brought from the northeastern shores of Titicaca. Mr. Bingham tells me that such obsidian tips are sometimes found in auriferous gravels there.
[35] The primitive inhabitants of the Canary Isles, who were apparently of Berber stock, also preserved their dead as mummies.
[36] Abundant evidence on this subject may be found in Mr. J. G. Frazer's Golden Bough. In Cornwall and Ireland sacred wells still receive offerings. I once met a French peasant who believed in were-wolves and knew one; and I remember as a boy to have been warned by the peasants in the Glens of Antrim to beware of the water spirit who (under the form of a bull) infested the river in which I was fishing.
[37] It is, however, probable that the early Spanish accounts of the excellence of the roads were exaggerated, for few traces of them can be discerned to-day.
[38] See [note III] at end of book.
[39] It is not clear how much territory this enumeration covered and it was probably only a rough estimate; still, the fact that the population was far larger in the middle of the sixteenth than it was in the eighteenth century seems beyond doubt.
[40] A vast deal still remains to be done both in Mexico and Peru, perhaps even more in the latter than in the former, to examine thoroughly both the accounts given by the early Spanish writers and the existing remains of buildings and graves and the objects found in or near them, so as to lay a foundation for some systematic account of the ancient native civilizations.
[41] Its habitual use may have contributed to give the Aymarás that impassive dulness which characterizes the race.