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[1] Some reports represent the Indian population as double this number. They were certainly much more numerous formerly, and no census had been taken at that time.

[2] This was their mode of making peace, or of honouring guests, by scattering the swansdown over them from their crestal crowns.

[3] They are not simply boxes, but the best and soundest cedar wood, of a squared shape and polished; over this dried skin is fastened, on which figures and emblems are painted.