Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities

329

For particulars concerning some of these, see Wm. Bartram, Travels, pp. 145, 165, 206, 230; Notices of E. Florida, by a recent Trav., pp. 28, 44; American Journal of Science, Vol. XXV., p. 165, I., (2 ser.) p. 39.

330

Flint, (Travels, Let. XVI., p. 172,) says that neither of those found in 1810 measured more than four feet. This is an error. He only saw the female, whose age was not over fourteen, and the squatting position in which the body was, deceived him.

331

Conq. de la Florida, Lib. V., P. II., cap. VIII.

332

In French’s Hist. Coll. of La., Pt. I., p. 61.

333

Mems. Hist. sur la Louisiane, T. I., pp. 154-5.

334

Hist. of Louisiana, Vol. II., p. 230.

335

A New Account of Carolina, p. 191.

336

Joutel, Jour. Hist., p. 218; Mems. of Sieur de Tonty, p. 61; Dupratz, V. II., p. 22; Cabeza de Vaca. in Ramusio, T. III., fol. 317, E.

337

Lawson, ubi suprà, p. 180.

338

It was remarked of the mummy found in the Mammoth cave, “In the making of her dress there is no evidence of the use of any other machinery than bone and horn needles.” (Collin’s Kentucky, p. 257.)

339

Archæologia Americana, Vol. I., p. 230.

340

Whence the French verb boucaner, and the English buccaneer. Possibly the custom may have been introduced among the tribes of the northern shore of the Gulf by the Caribs.

341

Dumont, Mems., Hist. sur la Louisiane, T. I, p. 240.

342

De Bry, Peregrinationes in America, P. I., Tab. XXII.; Beverly, Hist. de la Virginie, Liv. III., pp. 285-6; Lawson, Acc’t of Carolina, p. 182; Schoolcraft, Hist. Ind. Tribes, Vol. V., p. 693.

343

See the Inca, Lib. IV., caps. VIII., IX.

344

See the Am. Jour. of Science, Vol. I., p. 429; Vol. XXII., p. 124; Collin’s Kentucky, pp. 177, 448, 520, 541; Bradford, Am. Antiqs., Pt. I., p. 29.

345

Dumont, Mems. Hist. T. II., pp. 178, 238; Dupratz, Vol. II., p. 221, and for the latter fact, Mems. of the Sieur de Tonty, p. 61.

346

Medical Repository, Vol. XVI., p. 148. This opinion is endorsed by Bradford, Am. Antiqs., p. 31.

347

Humboldt, Krit. Untersuch. ueber die Hist. Entwickelung der Geog. Kentnisse der neuen Welt, B. I., s. 322; the same reason is given by De Laet, Descrip. Ind. Occident. Lib. IV., cap. XIV.

348

“Guañines de oro,” Navarrete, Viages, Tom. III., p. 52; Herrera, Dec. I., Lib. IX., cap. XI.

349

Mais on n’y trouve pas d’or, parce qu’elle est eloignè des mines d’Onagatono, situées dans les montagnes neigeuses d’Onagatono dernieres possessions d’Abolachi, Memoire, p. 32.

350

Pedro Morales, in Hackluyt, Vol. III., p. 432.

351

See Lanman’s Letters from the Allegheny Mountains, pp. 9, 26, 27; White, Hist. Coll. of Georgia, pp. 487-8.

352

Humboldt, Island of Cuba, p. 131, note.