[688] _Pilgrim. to Mec. and Med._, p. 378. See also page 129 f., _supra_. [689] Richardson’s _Eng. Dict._, s. v., “Liver.” [690] Annandale’s Ogilvie’s _Imperial Dict._, s. v., “Liver.” [691] See Cushing’s paper on “Zuñi Fetiches,” in _Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_, pp. 3-43. [692] 1 Peter 2 : 2-5. [693] Cushing’s “Zuñi Fetiches,” p. 43. [694] See “Illustrated Catalogue of Collections from Indians of New Mexico and Arizona,” 1879, in _Second Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnology_, Figures 361-387; 421-430. [695] St. John’s _Life in Far East_, I., 74 f. [696] _Ibid._, I., 115 f. [697] St. John’s _Life in Far East_, I., 160. [698] _Ibid._, I., 187. [699] This is a different form from that reported at page 192 f., _supra_. [700] St. John’s _Life in Far East_, I., 61. [701] Lev. 17 : 14. [702] As to this specific instance, I can bear personal testimony, from my frequent communications on the subject, with the person whose experience is here recited. [703] _Am. Annals of Deaf and Dumb_, Vol. VI., p. 134. [704] Paul’s claim, in Romans 1 : 18-23, is not that man knows God intuitively; but that, having the knowledge of God, which he does have by tradition, man ought not to liken God to “four-footed beasts and creeping things.” [705] See page 136, _supra_. [706] See page 133 f., _supra_. [707] 1 Kings 21 : 17-23; 22 : 35-38; 2 Kings 9 : 30-37. [708] At page 44, _supra_. [709] See page 154, _supra_. [710] See page 313, _supra_. [711] See page 53, _supra_. [712] See page 35, _supra_. [713] See page 37, _supra_. [714] Gen. 21 : 33. [715] See Gen. 13 : 18; 14 : 13; 18 : 1. [716] The covenant was “with” [Hebrew, עִם _’im_, not “with” as an instrument, but “with” as in the presence of, as accompanied by] the tree at Shechem. [717] See page 218, _supra_, note. [718] Judges 9 : 1-6. [719] Robinson’s _Biblical Researches_, II., 210 f., note. [720] Von Wrede’s _Reise in Hadhramaut_, p. 197 f. [721] See reference (in footnote 585 at page 268 f. _supra_) to the custom in Sumatra, of taking an oath over the “grave of the original patriarch of the Passumah.” [722] _Lady of the Lake_, Canto III. [723] _Ibid._, note. [724] See pages 13, 86 f., _supra_. [725] Athenæus’s _Deipnosophistæ_, II., 24 (45). [726] St. John’s _Life in Far East_, Comp. I., 38, 46, 56, 74-76, 115, 117, 185. [727] A trace of the burnt branch of the covenant-tree. [728] See page 270, _supra_. [729] See page 270, _supra_. [730] See pages 9, 154, _supra_. [731] W. H. Holmes, in _Second Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnol._, pp. 240-254. [732] W. H. Holmes, in _Second Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnol._, p. 243. [733] _Events in Indian History_, p. 143: cited _Ibid._, p. 242 f. [734] _Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriq._, tom. II., pp. 502-507; cited _Ibid._, p. 243 ff. [735] Loskiel’s _Missions of the United Brethren_, Trans. by La Trobe, Bk. I., p. 26; cited in _Ibid._, p. 245 f. [736] _Ibid._, p. 253 f.