Esquimau_, p. lv.
[359] Boas, Fr., _Proc. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci._, 1889, p. 857.
[360] Boas, _Sixth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada_, p. 117.
[361] Boas, Fr., _Fifth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada_, p.
85.
[362] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 114. References for the next
two are the same.
[363] Bancroft, H.H., _Native Races of the Pacific States_, Vol. II. p.
763. The meanings are from Brinton's _Maya Chronicles_, p. 38 _et seq._
[364] Brinton, _Maya Chronicles_, p. 44.
[365] Simeon Remi, _Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl_, p. xxxii.
[366] An error occurs on p. xxxiv of the work from which these numerals are
taken, which makes the number in question appear as 279,999,999 instead of
1,279,999,999.
[367] Gallatin, "Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America,"
_Tr. Am. Ethn. Soc._ Vol. I. p. 114.
[368] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 89. The Totonacos were the first race Cortez
encountered after landing in Mexico.
[369] _Op. cit._, p. 90. The Coras are of the Mexican state of Sonora.
[370] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 114.
[371] Humboldt, _Recherches_, Vol. II. p. 112.
[372] Squier, _Nicaragua_, Vol. II. p. 326.
[373] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 57.
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