[292-2] Waitz, _Anthropologie_, i. pp. 325, 465. [293-1] So says Dr. Waitz, _ibid._, p. 465. [294-1] Schoolcraft, _Algic Researches_, i. p. 143. [294-2] _L'Homme Américain_, ii. p. 319. [295-1] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, liv. iii. chaps. 1 and 2. [295-2] Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva España_, lib. x. cap. 29. [296-1] Novalis, _Schriften_, i. p. 244: Berlin, 1837. [296-2] Ibid., p. 267. [296-3] _Hist. de la Civilisation en France_, i. pp. 122, 130. [297-1] _Narrative of J. R. Jewett among the Savages of Nootka Sound_, p. 121. [297-2] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, An 1636, p. 109. [297-3] Ibid., An 1670, p. 99. [299-1] Geronimo de Ore, _Symbolo Catholico Indiano_, chap, ix., quoted by Ternaux-Compans. De Ore was a native of Peru and held the position of Professor of Theology in Cuzco in the latter half of the sixteenth century. He was a man of great erudition, and there need be no hesitation in accepting this extraordinary prayer as genuine. For his life and writings see Nic. Antonio, _Bib. Hisp. Nova_, tom. ii. p. 43. [300-1] Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva España_, lib. vi. caps. 1, 4. [300-2] Morse, _Rep. on the Ind. Tribes_, App. p. 250. [302-1] Cogolludo, _Hist. de Yucathan_, lib. iv. cap. 9. Compare Stephens, _Travs. in Yucatan_, ii. p. 122, who describes the remains of these roads as they now exist. [302-2] Rivero and Tschudi, _Antiqs. of Peru_, p. 162. [302-3] La Vega, _Hist. des Incas_, lib. vi. chap. 30; Xeres, _Rel de la Conq. du Pérou_, p. 151; _Let. sur les Superstit. du Pérou_, p. 98, and others. INDEX. Abnakis, 174 Acagchemem, a Californian tribe, 105 Age of man in America, 35-37 Ages of the world, 213 sq. Akakanet, 61 Akanzas, 238 Akenatzi, 284 Algonkins, location, 26 name of God, 58 n.[TN-19] mythical ancestors, 77 veneration of birds, 103 of serpents, 108, 109, 113, 116 myths and rites, 133, 136, 144, 147, 151, 161, 174, 198, 209, 220, 224, 236, 240, 244, 248, 277, 297 Aluberi, a name of God, 58 n.[TN-19] Anahuac, 29, 282 Angont, a mythical serpent, 136 Apalachian tribes, 27, 225 Apocatequil, a Peruvian deity, 153 Ararats, of America, 203 Araucanians, 33 name of God, 48, 61 myths, 204, 248 Arks, 255 Arowacks, 58 n.[TN-19] Ataensic, an Iroquois deity, 123, 131, 170 Ataguju, or Atachuchu, 152 Atatarho, mythical Iroquois chief, 118 Athapascan tribes, 24 myths, 104, 150, 195, 205, 229, 248, 257 Atl, an Aztec deity, 131 Aurora borealis, 245 Aymaras, 31, 34, 177 Aztecs, their books and characters, 10 divisions, 29 names of God, 48, 50, 58 n.[TN-19] government, 69 rites, 72, 126, 127, 147 calendar, 74 worship of cross, 95 names of cardinal points, 93 worship of birds, 102, 106, 107 of serpents, 111 myths, 132, 133, 134, 138, 144, 156, 171, 181, 205, 214 sq., 227, 240, 246, 248, 252, 258 priests, 282 prayers, 292 Aztlan, 181 Bacab, Maya gods, 80 Baptism, 125 seq. Bimini, 87 Bird, symbol of, 101 sq., 195 sq., 229, 254