Note 51 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

Lord Kingsborough at this point takes issue with Adair so far as concerns the Indians of South America, referring to Las Casas, op. cit. Chapter 178; but saying, also, that Adair was led to the belief he expresses by the customs prevailing in North America, as to which Las Casas confirms Adair’s denial of the practice there, in his Chapter 224; this, on the authority of Cabeza de Vaca who states that the Indians of Florida and the Southern Mississippi Valley held cannibalism in extreme abhorence. But that a few tribes of North America, in Texas, were cannibals, see Swanton, Lower Tribes, 360.