Note 65 — Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews. (continued 4)

Boudinot, Star of the West, 176; and Mooney, Myths, 503, quoting Washburn, Reminiscences, 191, 121, on the capture of the ark of the Cherokees by the Delaware Indians, to the loss of which the old priests of the Cherokees ascribed the later degeneracy of their people. Buttrick, Antiquities, 12, refers to the ark covered with deer-skin “to be set up when they rested and carried when they journeyed.”