These are evidently translations of the Spanish _hacia la media noche_, _hacia el medio dia_, for they could not have originated among a people under or south of the equatorial line.
[94-1] Catlin, _Letters and Notes_, i., Letter 22; La Hontan, _Memoires_, ii.p.

151; Gumilla, _Hist.

del Orinoco_, p.

159 [96-1] On the worship of the cross in Mexico and Yucatan and its invariable meaning as representing the gods of rain, consult Ixtlilxochitl, _Hist.

des Chichimeques_, p.