Note 279 — Chapter XXV · ACCOUNT OF THE MANDAN INDIANS (continued 2)
Hannibal Evans Lloyd translation
Deluge-myths are very widespread among the American aborigines. D.G. Brinton, Myths of the New World (Philadelphia, 3rd ed., 1896), pp. 234-249, finds over thirty-four tribes among whom distinct traces of deluge myths were prevalent.—Ed.