[50-1] My authorities are Riggs, _Dict. of the Dakota_, Boscana, _Account of New California_, Richardson's and Egede's Eskimo Vocabularies, Pandosy, _Gram. and Dict. of the Yakama_ (Shea's Lib. of Am. Linguistics), and the Abbé Brasseur for the Aztec. [51-1] These terms are found in Gallatin's vocabularies. The last mentioned is not, as Adair thought, derived from _issto ulla_ or _ishto hoollo_, great man, for in Choctaw the adjective cannot precede the noun it qualifies. Its true sense is visible in the analogous Creek words _ishtali_, the storm wind, and _hustolah_, the windy season. [51-2] Webster derives hurricane from the Latin _furio_. But Oviedo tells us in his description of Hispaniola that "Hurakan, in lingua di questa isola vuole dire propriamente fortuna tempestuosa molto eccessiva, perche en effetto non è altro que un grandissimo vento è pioggia insieme." _Historia dell' Indie_, lib. vi. cap. iii. It is a coincidence--perhaps something more--that in the Quichua language _huracan_, third person singular present indicative of the verbal noun _huraca_, means "a stream of water falls perpendicularly." (Markham, _Quichua Dictionary_, p. 132.) [52-1] Oviedo, _Rel. de la Prov. de Cueba_, p. 141, ed. Ternaux-Compans. [52-2] Garcia, _Origen de los Indios_, lib. iv. cap. xxii. [53-1] See the _Rel. de la Nouv. France pour l'An 1637_, p. 49. [53-2] Mr. Morgan, in his excellent work, _The League of the Iroquois_, has been led astray by an ignorance of the etymology of these terms. For Schoolcraft's views see his _Oneota_, p. 147. The matter is ably discussed in the _Etudes Philologiques sur Quelques Langues Sauvages de l'Amérique_, p. 14: Montreal, 1866; but comp. Shea, _Dict. Français-Onontagué_, preface. [54-1] "Qui ne prend aucun soin des choses icy bas." _Jour. Hist. d'un Voyage de l'Amérique_, p. 225: Paris, 1713. [55-1] In attributing this speech to the Inca Yupanqui, I have followed Balboa, who expressly says this was the general opinion of the Indians (_Hist. du Pérou_, p. 62, ed. Ternaux-Compans). Others assign it to other Incas. See Garcilasso de la Vega, _Hist. des Incas_, lib. viii. chap. 8, and Acosta, _Nat. and Morall Hist. of the New World_, chap. 5. The fact and the approximate time are beyond question. [56-1] Xeres, _Rel. de la Conq. du Pérou_, p. 151, ed. Ternaux-Compans. [57-1] Prescott, _Conq. of Mexico_, i. pp. 192, 193, on the authority of Ixtlilxochitl. [57-2] Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, iii. p. 297, note.