mn
procession, received the consecrated wafer, which promptly
descended into pious hands. The donkey was adopted by the
bishop and the soldier was promptly hanged, in accordance with
the general treatment of thieves in those days. The writer has
more than once seen a flagstone inclosed within a railing that
occupies the central spot of the floor or pavement of the
church, it being the identical spot on which the donkey knelt.

[27] Rush's "Medical Inquiries," vol. i, page 217.

[28] Fothergill. "Gout in its Protean Aspects," page 158.

[29] "Philosophy of Magic," from the French of Eusebe Salverte, vol.
ii, page 143.

[30] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales." Cullerier. Article,
Phimosis. Vol. xli.

[31] Bergmann has gone into this subject at length, and the writer
has drawn freely from his brochure on "Castration and
Eunuchism," reprinted from the "Archivio per le Traditione
Populaire" of 1883.

[32] "The Hermit." By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. See Introduction.

[33] "Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales," vol. liv, page 570.

[34] _Ibid._, page 567.

[35] _Ibid._, page 570.

[36] "Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical
Literature," vol. iii, page 351.

[37] Smollett gives a good account of the Carthagena expedition in
his "Roderick Random," and for a good satisfactory detail of
the blundering Walcheren expedition the reader is referred to
Harriet Martineau's "History of England," vol. i, pages 269,
272, 273, and 354.

[38] Schoopanism, or paederastia, is at times practiced by the
Omahas, and the man or boy who suffers as the passive agent is
called _min-quga_, or hermaphrodite.--"Third Annual Report of
the Bureau of Ethnology." By J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881,
1882.

[39] When the missionaries first arrived in this region they found
men dressed as women and performing women's duties who were
kept for unnatural purposes. From their youth up they were
treated, instructed, and used as females, and were even
frequently publicly married to the chiefs or great
men.--Bancroft's works, vol. i, "Native Races," page 415.

[40] "Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains," tome ii.