“A quantity of pearls amounting to six or seven arrobes.” Biedma, in Historical Collections of Louisiana, part II, p. 101. “In her eares bracelets of pearls hanging down to her middle.” _Voyages of English Nation to America_, in Hakluyt, II, p. 286. In same, p. 304, it is said, “not only his own skinnes that hee weareth, and the better sort of his gentlemen and followers are full set with the sayd Pearle, but also his beds, and houses are garnished with them, and that hee hath such quantitie of them, that it is a wonder to see.” “Bracelets of real pearls; but they pierce them when hot and thus spoil them.” Membré, _loc. cit._, p. 183. Cf. Shea, _Early Voyages_, p. 86, and in same, p. 140, Father Gravier says, “the chief’s wife had some small pearls ... but about seven or eight which are as large as small peas.” Cf. Captain Smith, _loc. cit._, pp. 138, 144, 191, etc.; Strachey, pp. 54, 132; Tonti, _loc. cit._, p. 62. Footnote 38: _Knight of Elvas_, _loc. cit._, p. 144. Cf. Garcilaso de la Vega, I, pp. 424, 434; and in vol. II, pp. 5 _et seq._, there is an account of the way in which the Indians extracted pearls from shells; Paris, 1670. Footnote 39: _First Voyage_, in Hakluyt, II, pp. 286, 334; Edinburgh, 1889. Footnote 40: “De tout ce que je vient de dire de la manière de s’orner, on conclura aisément, que les Sauvages, au lieu d’ajouter à leur beauté naturelle, (car ils sont presque tous bien faits,) travaillent à se rendre laids & à se défigurer. Cela est vrai aussi; cependant quand ils sont bien parez à leur mode, l’assemblage bizarre de tous leurs ornemens, non seulement n’a rien qui choque, mais il a un je ne sçai quoi qui plaît, & leur donne de la bonne grace.” Lafitau, _Mœurs des Sauvages Amériquains_, tome III, p. 57; Paris, 1724. Footnote 41: October, 1902, p. 15. Footnote 42: University of Pennsylvania, Bulletin Series, 1901. Footnote 43: _Prehistoric Implements_, p. 280. Footnote 44: 24th _Report_ of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1906. =The Riverside Press= CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS U · S · A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Page Changed from Changed to 197 point, and it was doubtless used point, and it was doubtless used as a hand-hatchet, mounted as is as a hand-hatchet, mounted as in Fig. 176. Fig. 176. ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. ● Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=.