Notes
"In Folk-lore, i, p. 278, there is an extract regarding the Cherokees' belief relative to the connection between serpents and precious stones, and, at page 209 of the same issue, there is a passage on Dracs in the Rhone, that are so similar to incidents in the Bhuridatta Játaka of the Buddhist literature, that I venture to think that a sketch of that legend, as taken from the Burmo-Pali version, would be of interest to the readers of Folk-Lore, and, without further preface, proceed to give it." (preface to the story)