ecame jealous,
and was highly offended at Mr. Rolfe for marrying a princess."
The notion was that "if Virginia descended to Pocahontas, as it
might do at Powhatan's death, at her own death the kingdom
would be vested in Mr. Rolfe's posterity." Esten Cooke's
_Virginia_, p. 100. Powhatan (i. e. Wahunsunakok, chief of the
Powhatan tribe) was often called "emperor" by the English
settlers. To their intense bewilderment he told one of them
that his office would descend to his [maternal] brothers, even
though he had sons living. It was thought that this could not
be true.]

[Footnote 101: The small states into which tribes were at first
transformed have in many cases survived to the present time as
portions of great states or nations. The shires or counties of
England, which have been reproduced in the United States,
originated in this way, as I have briefly explained in my
little book on _Civil Government in the United States_, p. 49.
When you look on the map of England, and see the town of
_Icklingham_ in the county of _Suffolk_, it means that this
place was once the "home" of the "Icklings" or "children of
Ickel," a clan which formed part of the tribe of Angles known
as "South folk." So the names of Gaulish tribes survived as
names of French provinces, e. g. _Auvergne_ from the _Arverni_,
_Poitou_ from the _Pictavi_, _Anjou_ from the _Andecavi_,
_Bearn_ from the _Bigerrones_, etc.]

[Footnote 102: "It was no easy task to accomplish such a
fundamental change, however simple and obvious it may now
seem.... Anterior to experience, a township, as the unit of a
political system, was abstruse enough to tax the Greeks and
Romans to the depths of their capacities before the conception
was formed and set in practical operation." Morgan, _Ancient
Society_, p. 218.]

[Sidenote: Suspicions as to the erroneousness of the Spanish accounts.]

[Sidenote: Detection and explanation of the errors, by Lewis Morgan.]

The first eminent writer to express a serious doubt as to the
correctness of the earlier views of Mexican civilization was that
sagacious Scotchman, William Robertson.[103] The illustrious statesman
and philologist, Albert Gallatin, founder of the Ame