Note 2 — I. Works of General Information.

Better, however, consult Zúñiga himself,2 and the notes thereon by Retana, who singularly has failed to insert Ortiz’ Práctica in his Biblioteca, and you will find much of interest;—among other things about tattooing, common practice at one time among all Polynesians, the same as among our own aborigines, until taught more refined ways by Christian missionaries; and about wakes too,—solemn ceremonials of grief, with banquetting and chants—on the occasion of the death of kindred.3