is our principal authority on them, I assume that the ascription of the custom to the Lenguas is correct.  However, in the volume on the Lengua Indians, which has been edited from Mr. Grubb’s papers (An Unknown People in an Unknown Land, London, 1911), these details as to the seclusion of girls at puberty are not mentioned, though what seems to be the final ceremony is described (op. cit. pp. 177 sq.).  From the description we learn that boys dressed in ostrich feathers and wearing masks circle round the girl with shrill cries, but are repelled by the women.

[135] Alcide d’Orbigny, Voyage dans l’Amerique Meridionale vol. iii. 1to Partie (Paris and Strasburg, 1844), pp. 205 sq.

[136] A. Thouar, Explorations dans l’Amerique du Sud (Paris, 1891) pp. 56 sq.; Father Cardus, quoted in J. Pelleschi’s Los Indios Matacos (Buenos Ayres, 1897), pp. 47 sq.

[137] A. Thouar, op. cit. p. 63.

[138] Francis de Castelnau, Expedition dans les parties centrales de l’Amerique du Sud (Paris, 1850-1851), v. 25.

[139] D. Luis de la Cruz, “Descripcion de la Naturaleza de los Terrenos que se comprenden en los Andes, poseidos por los Peguenches y los demas espacios hasta el rio de Chadileuba,” p. 62, in Pedro de Angelis, Coleccion de Obras y Documentos relativos a la Historia antigua y moderna de las Provincias del Rio de la Plata, vol. i. (Buenos-Ayres, 1836).  Apparently the Peguenches are an Indian tribe of Chili.

[140] J.B. von Spix und C.F.  Ph. von Martius, Reise in Brasilien (Munich, 1823-1831), iii. 1186, 1187, 1318.

[141] Andre Thevet, Cosmographie Universelle (Paris, 1575), ii. 946 B [980] sq.; id., Les Singularites de la France Antarctique, autrement nommee Amerique (Antwerp, 1558), p. 76; J.F.  Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains (Paris, 1724), i. 290 sqq.

[142] R. Schomburgk, Reisen in Britisch Guiana (Leipsic, 1847-1848), ii. 315 sq.; C.F.Ph. von Martius, Zur Ethnographie Amerika’s, zumal Brasiliens (Leipsic, 1867), p. 644.

[143] Labat, Voyage du Chevalier des Marchais en Guinee, Isles voisines, et a Cayenne, iv. 365 sq. (Paris, 1730), pp. 17 sq. (Amsterdam, 1731).

[144] A. Caulin, Historia Coro-graphica natural y evangelica dela Nueva Andalucia (1779), p. 93.  A similar custom, with the omission of the stinging, is reported of the Tamanaks in the region of the Orinoco.  See F.S.  Gilij, Saggio di Storia Americana, ii. (Rome, 1781), p. 133.

[145] A.R.  Wallace, Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, p. 496 (p. 345 of the Minerva Library edition, London, 1889).

[146] Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 105 sqq.; The Scapegoat> pp. 259 sqq.

[147] J.B. von Spix and C.F.Ph. von Martius, Reise in Brasilien (Munich, 1823-1831), iii. 1320.