[193-1] So far as this applies to the Eskimos, it might be questioned on the authority of Paul Egede, whose valuable _Nachrichten von Grönland_ contains several flood-myths, &c. But these Eskimos had had for generations intercourse with European missionaries and sailors, and as the other tribes of their stock were singularly devoid of corresponding traditions, it is likely that in Greenland they were of foreign origin. [194-1] Pictet, _Origines Indo-Européennes_ in Michelet, _La Mer_. The latter has many eloquent and striking remarks on the impressions left by the great ocean. [195-1] "Spiritus Dei incubuit superficei aquarum" is the translation of one writer. The word for spirit in Hebrew, as in Latin, originally meant wind, as I have before remarked. [195-2] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, i. p. 266. [196-1] Mackenzie, _Hist. of the Fur Trade_, p. 83; Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, p. 239. [196-2] Ximenes, _Or. de los Ind. de Guat._, pp. 5-7. I translate freely, following Ximenes rather than Brasseur. [197-1] Garcia, _Or. de los Indios_, lib. v. cap. 4. [197-2] _Doc. Hist. of New York_, iv. p. 130 (circ. 1650). [197-3] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, An 1636, p. 101. [198-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, An 1634, p. 13. [199-1] _Conquest of Mexico_, i. p. 61. [200-1] For instance, Epictetus favors the opinion that at the solstices of the great year not only all human beings, but even the gods, are annihilated; and speculates whether at such times Jove feels lonely (_Discourses_, bk. iii. chap. 13). Macrobius, so far from coinciding with him, explains the great antiquity of Egyptian civilization by the hypothesis that that country is so happily situated between the pole and equator, as to escape both the deluge and conflagration of the great cycle (_Somnium Scipionis_, lib. ii. cap. 10). [201-1] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, iii. p. 263, iv. p. 230. [201-2] Oviedo, _Hist. du Nicaragua_, pp. 22, 27. [201-3] Müller, _Amer. Urrelig._, p. 254, from Max and Denis. [202-1] Morse, _Rep. on the Ind. Tribes_, App. p. 346; D'Orbigny, _Frag. d'un Voyage dans l'Amér. Mérid._, p. 512. [202-2] When, as in the case of one of the Mexican Noahs, Coxcox, this does not seem to hold good, it is probably owing to a loss of the real form of the myth. Coxcox is also known by the name of Cipactli, Fish-god, and Huehue tonaca cipactli, Old Fish-god of Our Flesh. [202-3] My knowledge of the Sanscrit form of the flood-myth is drawn principally from the dissertation of Professor Felix Nève, entitled _La Tradition Indienne du Deluge dans sa Forme la plus ancienne_, Paris, 1851. There is in the oldest versions no distinct reference to an antediluvian race, and in India Manu is by common consent the Adam as well as the Noah of their legends. [203-1] Prescott, _Conquest of Peru_, i. p. 88; _Codex Vaticanus_, No. 3776, in Kingsborough.