Note 16 — IX. THE STERCORANISTES.
Reading edition
O’Donovan, “Three Fragments of Irish Annals,” Dublin, 1860, pp. 10-12. The bodies of Indian chiefs in Venezuela were incinerated, the ashes drunk in native liquor. “Tuestanlo, muelenlo, y echado en vino lo beben y esto es gran honra.”—Gómara, “Historia de las Indias,” p. 203.