in war, absolute sovereignity in peace, and a venerated high priesthood in religious feasts, they exercised the highest power ever known to man--realized in their persons the famous union of the pope and the emperor, and more reasonably than Louis XIV., might have exclaimed: "I am the state!" (Peruvian Antiquities, Tschudi, pp. 74, 75). 5. Alma xlv: 18, 19. 6. III. Nephi i: 1-3. 7. Native Races, Vol. V., pp. 27, 28. Our author here follows Claviergo. 8. The chronology of legends, or even traditions, is very uncertain; and the variation of a few hundred years or so is not serious. The main point in the above case is that Votan came to America some hundreds of years B. C. 9. Of Lehi's family there were himself and wife, and four sons. Zoram, the servant of Laban; he married one of the daughters of Ishmael. Of Ishmael's family there was himself and wife, two married sons and five daughters. If, as it is supposed, the four sons of Lehi married the four daughters of Ishmael then there were nine families that formed the colony. Ishmael, however, died during the colony's wanderings in Arabia, and hence there were eight families that reached America in the Nephite colony. (For above facts see I. Nephi ii, vi, vii, xvi: 34). 10. I. Nephi ii. 11. Bancroft, Native Races, Vol. V., p. 166. 12. I. Nephi i, and I. Nephi ii. 13. Those who would have further information concerning Votan are referred to Bancroft's Native Races, Vol. III., pp. 450, 455. Also Vol. V., pp. 159, 160. Also to Donnelley's Atlantis, chapter iv, and the past notes in these several works. 14. Mexican Antiquities, Kingsborough, Vol. VI., p. 419. 15. III. Nephi xvii: 7, 9. 16. III. Nephi xvii: 15-17. 17. III. Nephi xxiii. 18. III. Nephi xvii: 4, see also chapter xvi: 1-3. 19. Bancroft, Native Races, Vol. V., p. 621. 20. Bancroft, Native Races, Vol. III., pp. 135, 260, 451 21. Bancroft, Native Races, Vol. V., p. 25 22. Those who desire to follow the researches of the noble author on this point can do so by consulting Vol. VIII. of his elaborate work, pp. 5-51; also his explanations of plates 3, 10, 41 of the Vatican Codex with accompanying notes, Vol. VI. This is by no means all that his lordship writes upon the subject, but from these passages one may learn the substance of his theory, and the argument by which he sustains it. 23. Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, Vol. I., p. 64. 24. History of America Before Columbus, P. De Roo, Vol. I., pp. 540-544. 25. Perhaps the fullest and most accessible work on the subject is Bancroft's Native Races, Vol. III., pp. 248, 287; and P. De Roo's America Before Columbus, Vol. I., chapters xxii, xxiii. 26. Native Races, Bancroft, Vol. III., p. 250. 27. See II. Nephi xv: 2, 10. 28. See III. Nephi xi: 21, 28, also III. Nephi xviii: 1, 25. Compare these several passages from Nephi with the statement in the text.