Note 47 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Pickett’s History of Alabama, 142; and Williams, Memoirs of Timberlake, 90. Lord Kingsborough quotes Las Casas, Historia Apologetica, as confirming fear of pollution by touching a dead body: “All who had touched dead bodies went to bathe themselves that no infirmity might befall them.”