[142-1] La Hontan, _Voy. dans l'Amér. Sept._, p. ii. 127; _Rel. Nouv. France_, 1637, p. 54. [142-2] Copway, _Trad. Hist. of the Ojibway Nation_, p. 165. _Kesuch_ in Algonkin signifies both sky and sun (Duponceau, _Langues de l'Amér. du Nord_, p. 312). So apparently does _kin_ in the Maya. [142-3] Payne's manuscripts quoted by Mr. Squier in his Serpent Symbol in America were compiled within this century, and from the extracts given can be of no great value. [143-1] The words for fire and sun in American languages are usually from distinct roots, but besides the example of the Natchez I may instance to the contrary the Kolosch of British America, in whose tongue fire is _kan_, sun, _kakan_ (_gake_, great), and the Tezuque of New Mexico, who use _tah_ for both sun and fire. [144-1] _Doc. Hist. of New York_, ii. p. 634. [144-2] Emory, _Milt'y Reconnoissance[TN-6] of New Mexico_, p. 30. [144-3] _Narrative of John Tanner_, p. 161. [144-4] Loskiel, _Ges. der Miss. der evang. Brüder_, p. 55. [144-5] _Nar. of John Tanner_, p. 351. [144-6] Sahagun, _Hist. Nueva España_, lib. vi. cap. 4. [145-1] _Letts. Edifiantes et Curieuses_, iv. p. 104, Oviedo; _Hist. du Nicaragua_, p. 49; Gomara, _Hist. del Orinoco_, ii. cap. 2. [145-2] Oviedo, _Hist. Gen. de las Indias_, p. 16, in Barcia's _Hist. Prim._ [145-3] _Presdt's Message and Docs._ for 1851, pt. iii. p. 506. [146-1] Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva España_, i. cap. 13. [147-1] _Voyage Pittoresque dans le Yucatan_, p. 49. [147-2] Davila Padilla, _Hist. de la Prov. de Santiago de Mexico_, lib. ii. cap. 88 (Brusselas, 1625); Palacios, _Des. de Guatemala_, p. 40; Garcia, _Or. de los Indios_, p. 124. To such an extent did the priests of the Algonkin tribes who lived near Manhattan Island carry their austerity, such uncompromising celibates were they, that it is said on authority as old as 1624, that they never so much as partook of food prepared by a married woman. (_Doc. Hist. New York_, iv. p. 28.) [149-1] Martius, _Von dem Rechtzustande unter den Ureinwohnern Brasiliens_, p. 28, gives many references. [149-2] Id. _ibid._, p. 61. [149-3] _Le Livre Sacré des Quichés_, Introd., pp. clxi., clxix. [149-4] _Travels in Yucatan_, i. p. 434. [150-1] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, v. pp. 416, 417. [150-2] Mrs. Eastman, _Legends of the Sioux_, p. 161. [151-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, 1634, p. 27; Schoolcraft, _Algic Researches_, ii. p. 116; _Ind. Tribes_, v. p. 420. [151-2] De Smet, _Western Missions_, p. 135; Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, i. p. 319. [151-3] Mrs. Eastman, _Legends of the Sioux_, p. 72. By another legend they claimed that their first ancestor obtained his fire from the sparks which a friendly panther struck from the rocks as he scampered up a stony hill (McCoy, _Hist. of Baptist Indian Missions_, p. 364). [152-1] Mrs. Eastman, ubi sup., p. 158; Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iv. p. 645. [152-2] Waitz, _Anthropologie_, iii. p. 417; Müller, _Am. Urrelig._, p. 271.