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thousand. And
of the inhabitants of the mountains and of the rest of the country
there was also a vast multitude, which was distributed among the
lots and had leaders assigned to them according to their districts
and villages.
    Note : There
were also a vast multitude of people in America before Columbus
arrived. According to some sources, there were 500 different
nations in America.
    “ The Lost Civilizations of North
America” documentary, YouTube Reference:
    youtu.be/yEcD55aTBdA
    The leader was required to furnish for
the war the sixth portion of war chariots, so as to make up a total
of ten thousand chariots. Also two horses and riders for them, a
pair of chariot-horses without a seat accompanied by a horseman who
could fight on foot carrying a small shield. Also a charioteer, who
stood behind the man-at-arms to guide the two horses; and, he was
bound to furnish two heavily armed soldiers, two slingers, three
stone-shooters and three javelin-men, who were light-armed, and
four sailors to make up the complement of twelve hundred
ships.
    Such was the military order of the
royal city—the order of the other nine governments varied, and it
would be wearisome to recount their several differences.
    As to offices and honors, the
following was the arrangement from the first. Each of the ten kings
in his own division and in his own city had the absolute control of
the citizens, and, in most cases, of the laws, punishing and
slaying whomsoever he would. Now the order of precedence among them
and their mutual relations were regulated by the commands of
Poseidon, which the law had handed down.
    These were inscribed by the first
kings on a pillar of orichalcum, which was situated in the middle
of the island, at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were
gathered together every fifth and every sixth year alternately,
thus giving equal honor to the odd and to the even
number.
    And when they were gathered together
they consulted about their common interests, and enquired if any
one had transgressed in anything and passed judgment and before
they passed judgment they gave their pledges to one another on this
wise:- There were bulls who had the range of the temple of
Poseidon; and the ten kings, being left alone in the temple, after
they had offered prayers to the god that they might capture the
victim which was acceptable to him, hunted the bulls, without
weapons but with staves and nooses; and the bull which they caught
they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of it so
that the blood fell upon the sacred inscription.
    Now on the pillar, besides
the laws, there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the
disobedient. When therefore, after slaying the bull in the
accustomed manner, they had burnt its limbs, they filled a bowl of
wine and cast in a clot of blood for each of them; the rest of the
victim they put in the fire, after having purified the column all
round. Then they drew from the bowl in golden cups, also pouring a
libation on the fire. They swore they would judge according to the
laws on the pillar, and would punish him who, in any point, had already transgressed them. Also, for
the future, they would not, if they could help, offend against the
writing on the pillar, and would neither command others, nor obey
any ruler who commanded them, to act otherwise than according to
the laws of their father, Poseidon.
    This was the prayer which each of
them-offered up for himself and for his descendants, at the same
time drinking and dedicating the cup out of which he drank in the
temple of the god; and after they had supped and satisfied their
needs, when darkness came on, and the fire about the sacrifice was
cool, all of them put on most beautiful azure robes, and, sitting
on the ground, at night, over the embers of the sacrifices by which
they had sworn, and extinguishing all the fire about the temple,
they received and gave judgment, if any of them had an accusation
to bring against any one; and when they