[727] A trace of the burnt branch of the covenant-tree.

[728] See page 270, supra.

[729] See page 270, supra.

[730] See pages 9, 154, supra.

[731] W. H. Holmes, in Second Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnol., pp. 240-254.

[732] W. H. Holmes, in Second Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnol., p. 243.

[733] Events in Indian History, p. 143: cited Ibid., p. 242 f.

[734] Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriq., tom. II., pp. 502-507; cited Ibid., p. 243 ff.

[735] Loskiel’s Missions of the United Brethren, Trans. by La Trobe, Bk. I., p. 26; cited in Ibid., p. 245 f.

[736] Ibid., p. 253 f.

[737] St. John’s Life in the Far East, I., 67.

[738] See page 73, supra.

[739] See page 75, supra.

[740] Allingham’s Ballad Book, p. 6 f.

[741] Todtenbuch, xvii., 42, 43.

[742] Renouf’s The Relig. of Anc. Egypt, p. 107.

[743] Renouf’s The Relig. of Anc. Egypt, p. 107.

[744] Miss. Voyage to So. Pacif. Ocean, p. 65.

[745] See E. R. Smith’s The Araucanians, p. 262.

[746] Power’s “Tribes of California,” in Contrib. to No. Am. Ethnol., III., 247.

[747] Principles of Sociology, II., 21.

[748] 1 Cor. 13 : 11.

[749] See note at page 218, supra.

[750] See pages 65-77, supra.

[751] 2 Cor. 5 : 17; Eph. 4 : 24; Col. 3 : 9, 10.

[752] Angas’s Savage Life, I., 114-116.

[753] See references to drawing blood from the forehead, at page 86 ff., supra.

[754] See pages 85-88, supra.

[755] Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, II., 569 f.

[756] See Prov. 27 : 9.

[757] Cited from Capt. Grant’s description; in Wood’s Unciv. Races, I., 440.

[758] Ibid., II., 81.

[759] Williams and Calvert’s Fiji and Fijians, p. 35.

[760] Indian Sign Language, s. v. “Brother.”

[761] Contributions to No. Am. Ethnology, Vol. III., p. 68.

[762] Dodge’s Our Wild Indians, page 514 f.

[763] Is there any correspondence between this word, taq’a, and the Hindoo word tika (the blood-mark on the Rajput chief), referred to at page 137, supra?