[220] De Gama's Discovery of the East Indies, in Knox, Voyages, London, 1767, vol. 2, p. 324. [221] Andrew K. Ober, in the Salem Gazette, Salem, Mass. [222] Hakluyt, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 508; also, Ternaux-Compans, Voy., vol. 9, pp. 307, 308. [223] Forster, Voyage Round the World, vol. 1, p. 435 [224] Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1, p. 66. [225] English edition, New York, 1842, p. 271. [226] Kingsborough, vol. 6, p. 100. [227] Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. 2, book 1, cap. 4, sec. 9, p. 81. [228] Y ponía delante un canuto grande y queso [grueso?] para con que bebiese: este canuto llamaban "bebedero del Sol."--Diego Duran, vol. 1, cap. 38, p. 386. [229] Smithsonian Contributions, vol. 1, p. 151. [230] The reed, which is the proper meaning of the word "acatl," is the hieroglyphic of the element water. Veytia, quoted by Thomas, in 3rd Ann. Rep., Bu. Eth., 1881-1882, p. 42 et seq. [231] Indian Myths, Boston, 1884, p. 260. [232] Picart, Cérémonies et Coûtumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, Amsterdam, 1735, vol. 6, part 2, p. 103. [233] Vâsish_th_a, cap. 3, pars. 26-30, pp. 20-21. Sacred Books of the East, Oxford, 1882, vol. 14, edition of Max Müller. [234] Ibid. [235] Diego Duran, loc. cit. [236] See Dall, Masks and Labrets, p. 151. [237] Peter Carder, an Englishman captive among the Brazilians, 1578-1586, in Purchas, vol. 4, lib. 6, cap. 5, p. 1189. [238] Purchas, vol. 4, lib. 8, cap. 1, sec. 2, p. 1508. [239] Dec. 4, lib. 4, p. 69. [240] Dec. 3, lib. 2, p. 67. [241] Ibid., p. 70. [242] Histoire Naturelle des Indes, Paris, 1600, lib. 5, cap. 9, p. 224. [243] History of Mexico, Philadelphia, 1817, vol. 2, p. 6. [244] Duran, op. cit., vol. 3, cap. 4, p. 211. [245] Brasseur de Bourbourg's translation, cap. 12, p. 175. [246] Picart, Cérémonies et Coûtumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, Amsterdam, 1743, vol. 8, p. 287. CHAPTER II. HODDENTIN, THE POLLEN OF THE TULE, THE SACRIFICIAL POWDER OF THE APACHE; WITH REMARKS UPON SACRED POWDERS AND BREAD OFFERINGS IN GENERAL. "Trifles not infrequently lead to important results. In every walk of science a trifle disregarded by incurious thousands has repaid the inquisitiveness of a single observer with unhoped-for knowledge."[247]