[202-1] Morse, _Rep. on the Ind. Tribes_, App. p. 346; D'Orbigny, _Frag. d'un Voyage dans l'Amér. Mérid._, p. 512.
[202-2] When, as in the case of one of the Mexican Noahs, Coxcox, this does not seem to hold good, it is probably owing to a loss of the real form of the myth. Coxcox is also known by the name of Cipactli, Fish-god, and Huehue tonaca cipactli, Old Fish-god of Our Flesh.
[202-3] My knowledge of the Sanscrit form of the flood-myth is drawn principally from the dissertation of Professor Felix Nève, entitled _La Tradition Indienne du Deluge dans sa Forme la plus ancienne_, Paris, 1851. There is in the oldest versions no distinct reference to an antediluvian race, and in India Manu is by common consent the Adam as well as the Noah of their legends.
[203-1] Prescott, _Conquest of Peru_, i. p. 88; _Codex Vaticanus_, No. 3776, in Kingsborough.
[203-2] And also various peculiarities of style and language lost in translation. The two accounts of the Deluge are given side by side in Dr. Smith's _Dictionary of the Bible_ under the word Pentateuch.
[203-3] See the dissertation of Prof. Nève referred to above.
[203-4] _American State Papers_, Indian Affairs, i. p. 729. Date of legend, 1801.
[204-1] Molina, _Hist. of Chili_, ii. p. 82.
[205-1] Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, p. 239.
[205-2] Dumont, _Mems. Hist. sur la Louisiane_, i. p. 163.
[205-3] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, v. p. 686.
[206-1] Desjardins, _Le Pérou avant la Conq. Espagn._, p. 27.
[207-1] Cod. Chimalpopoca, in Brasseur, _Hist. du Mexique_, Pièces Justificatives.
[207-2] These four birds, whose names have lost their signification, represent doubtless the four winds, or the four rivers, which, as in so many legends, are the active agents in overwhelming the world in its great crises.
[208-1] The word rendered mill-stone, in the original means those large hollowed stones on which the women were accustomed to bruise the maize. The imitative sounds for which I have substituted others in English, are in Quiché, _holi, holi, huqui, huqui_.
[209-1] Brasseur translates "quoique nous ne sentissions rien," but Ximenes, "nos quemasteis, y sentimos el dolor." As far as I can make out the original, it is the negative conditional as I have given it in the text.