del Paraguay_, lib.i.cap.ii., in Waitz).

The fourfold division of the Muyscas of Bogota was traced back to four chieftains created by their hero god Nemqueteba (A.von Humboldt, _Vues des Cordilleres_, p.

246).

The Nahuas of Mexico much more frequently spoke of themselves as descendants of four or eight original families than of seven (Humboldt, _ibid._, p.

317, and others in Waitz, _Anthropologie_, iv.pp.36, 37).