P. Pogge, _Im Reiche des Muata Jamwo_ (Berlin, 1880), p. 234.
A. Bastian, _Die Völker des östlichen Asien_, iii. 515 _sq._
Du Pratz, _History of Louisiana_ (London, 1774), pp. 330-334, 346 _sq._, 351-358; Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, vi. 172 _sqq._; Lafitau, _Mœurs des sauvages Ameriquains_, i. 167 _sq._; _Lettres édifiantes et curieuses_, Nouvelle Édition, vii. (Paris, 1781) pp. 7-16 (reprinted in _Recueil de voyages au nord_, ix. Amsterdam, 1737, pp. 3-13); “Relation de la Louisianne,” _Recueil de voyages au Nord_, v. (Amsterdam, 1734) pp. 23 _sq._; Bossu, _Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales_ (Paris, 1768), i. 42-44; Chateaubriand, _Voyage en Amérique_ (Paris, 1870), pp. 227 _sqq._; H. R. Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes_, v. 68. The accounts differ from each other in some details. Thus Du Pratz speaks as if there were only two fire-temples in the country, whereas the writer in the _Lettres édifiantes_ says that there were eleven villages each with its fire-temple, and that formerly there had been sixty villages and temples. The account in the text is based mainly on the authority of Du Pratz, who lived among the Natchez on terms of intimacy for eight years, from the end of 1718 to 1726.
Hennepin, _Nouvelle Découverte d’un très grand pays situé dans l’Amérique_ (Utrecht, 1697), p. 306.
Xenophon, _Cyropaedia_, viii. 3. 12; Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii. 6. 34; Quintus Curtius, iii. 3. 7.
Dio Cassius, lxxi. 35. 5; Herodian, i. 8. 4, i. 16. 4, ii. 3. 2, ii. 8. 6, vii. 1. 9, vii. 6. 2.
H. Schinz, _Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika_, p. 320.
O. Dapper, _Description de l’Afrique_ (Amsterdam, 1686), p. 392.
Quintus Curtius, v. 2. 7. Curtius represents this as a signal adopted by Alexander, because the sound of the bugle was lost in the trampling and hum of the great multitude. But this maybe merely the historian’s interpretation of an old custom.
Xenophon, _Respublica Lacedaemoniorum_, xiii. 2 _sq._; Nicolaus Damascenus, quoted by Stobaeus, _Florilegium_, xliv. 41 (vol. ii. p. 188 ed. Meineke); Hesychius, _s.v._ πυρσοφόρος.
Aeschylus, _Choëph._ 604 _sqq._; Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, i. 8. 2 _sq._; Diodorus Siculus, iv. 34. 6 _sq._; Ovid, _Metamorph._ viii. 445 _sqq._; Hyginus, _Fab._ 171 and 174.