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[Footnote 90: Bossu's Travels (Forster's translation), 1771, p. 38.]

[Footnote 91: At the hour intended for the ceremony, they made the victims swallow little b.a.l.l.s or pills of tobacco, in order to make them giddy, and as it were to take the sensation of pain from them; after that they were all strangled and put upon mats, the favorite on the right, the other wife on the left, and the others according to their rank.]

[Footnote 92: The established distinctions among these Indians were as follows: The Suns, relatives of the Great Sun, held the highest rank; next come the n.o.bles; after them the Honorables; and last of all the common people, who were very much despised. As the n.o.bility was propagated by the women, this contributed much to multiply it.]

[Footnote 93: The Great Sun had given orders to put out all the fires, which is only done at the death of the sovereign.]

[Footnote 94: Ten Years in Oregon, 1850, p. 261.]

[Footnote 95: Nat. Races of Pacif. States, 1875, vol iii, p. 513.]

[Footnote 96: Pilgrimage, 1828, vol. ii, p. 443.]

[Footnote 97: Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition, 1860, ii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 98: League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 287.]

[Footnote 99: Cont. to North American Ethnol., 1878, iii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 100: Am. Antiq., April, May, June, 1879, p. 251.]

[Footnote 101: Pilgrimage, 1828, ii, p. 308.]

[Footnote 102: Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851, part i, p. 356.]

[Footnote 103: Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. ii., p. 58.]

[Footnote 104: Ethnol. and Philol. of the Hidatsa Indians. U.S.

Geol. Surv. of Terr., 1877, p. 409.]

[Footnote 105: Long's Exped., 1824, vol. ii, p. 158.]

[Footnote 106: Northwest Coast, 1857, p. 212.]

[Footnote 107: Nat. Races Pacif. States, 1875, vol. iii, p. 512.]

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