M46 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Yuracares of Bolivia.
135 Alcide d'Orbigny, _Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale_, vol. iii. 1re Partie (Paris and Strasburg, 1844), pp. 205 _sq._
M47 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of the Gran Chaco, and Brazil.
136 A. Thouar, _Explorations dans l'Amérique du Sud_ (Paris, 1891) pp. 56 _sq._; Father Cardus, quoted in J. Pelleschi's _Los Indios Matacos_ (Buenos Ayres, 1897), pp. 47 _sq._
138 Francis de Castelnau, _Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique 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 André Thevet, _Cosmographie Universelle_ (Paris, 1575), ii. 946 B [980] _sq._; _id._, _Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique_ (Antwerp, 1558), p. 76; J. F. Lafitau, _Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains_ (Paris, 1724), i. 290 _sqq._,
M48 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Indians of Guiana. Custom of beating the girls and of causing them to be stung by ants.
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 Guinée, Isles voisines, et à 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).
