Indian tribes, and in this way have been preserved,
although perhaps in an obscure and imperfect manner, in some instances
at least, until the present day? The facts which we have before us, with
many others like them which are to be had, point with the greatest
likelihood to a common fatherland, the cradle of all nations, from which
they came, taking these traditions with them.

FOOTNOTES:

[533:1] Baring-Gould's Legends of the Patriarchs, p. 46.

[533:2] Squire's Serpent Symbol, p. 67.

[533:3] Ibid. Here we see the parallel to the _Grecian_ fable of
Epimetheus and Pandora.

[533:4] Brinton: Myths of the New World, p. 203. Higgins: Anacalypsis,
vol. ii. p. 27.

[533:5] Ibid.

[533:6] Brinton: Myths of the New World, p. 204.

[533:7] See Chapter V.

[533:8] See Ibid. and Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Transmigration."

[534:1] See Chapter XI.

[534:2] See Chapter X.

[534:3] See Chapter XI.

[534:4] Ibid.

[534:5] See Early Hist. Mankind, p. 252; Squire's Serpent Symbol; and
Prescott: Con. Peru.

[534:6] See Ibid., and the Andes and the Amazon, p. 454.

[534:7] See Early Hist. Mankind, p. 842.

[534:8] Ibid.

[534:9] See Chapter XII.

[534:10] See Chapter XXV.

[534:11] See Chapter XX.

Mr. Prescott, speaking of the Pyramid of Cholula, in his Mexican
History, says: "On the summit stood a sumptuous temple, in which was the
image of the mystic deity (_Quetzalcoatle_), with _ebon_ features,
unlike the fair complexion which he bore upon earth." And Kenneth R. H.
Mackenzie says (in Cities of the Ancient World, p. 180): "From the
woolly texture of the hair, I am inclined to assign to the Buddha of
India, the Fuhi of China, the Sommonacom of the Siamese, the Xaha of the
Japanese, and the Quetzalcoatle of the Mexicans, the same, and indeed an
African, or rather Nubian, origin."

[534:12] See Chapter XXII.

[534:13] See Chapter XXIII.

[534:14] See Chapter XXVI.

[535:1] Squire: Serpent Symbol, p. 77.

[535:2] Ibid. p. 109.

[535:3] See Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship, and Squire's Serpent
Symbol.

[535:4] See Ibid.

[535:5] See Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 361, and Squire's
Serpent Symbol.

[535:6] Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 280, and Squire's Serpent Symbol.

[535:7] Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 294, and Squire's Serpent Symbol.

[535:8] Tylor: Primitive Culture, vol. i. pp. 295, 296.

[535:9] Ibid. p. 300.

[535:10] Ibid.

[535:11] Ibid. p. 301.

[536:1] Tyl