[174] George Turner, LL.D., Samoa, a Hundred Years ago and long before (London, 1884), p. 200.  For other examples of such tales, see Adolph Bastian, Die Voelker des Oestlichen Asien, i. 416, vi. 25; Panjab Notes and Queries, ii. p. 148, Sec. 797 (June, 1885); A. Pfizmaier, “Nachrichten von den alten Bewohnern des heutigen Corea,” Sitzungsberichte der philosoph. histor.  Classe der kaiser.  Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), lvii. (1868) pp. 495 sq.

[175] Thomas J. Hutchinson, “On the Chaco and other Indians of South America,” Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, N.S. iii. (1865) p. 327.  Amongst the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco the marriage feast is now apparently extinct.  See W. Barbrooke Grubb, An Unknown People in an Unknown Land (London, 1911), p. 179.

[176] Monier Williams, Religious Thought and Life in India (London, 1883), p. 354.

[177] H. Vambery, Das Tuerkenvolk (Leipsic, 1885), p. 112.

[178] Hans Egede, A Description of Greenland (London, 1818), p. 209.

[179] Revue des Traditions Populaires, xv. (1900) p. 471.

[180] Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 145 sqq.

[181] H.E.A.  Meyer, “Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia,” The Native Tribes of South Australia (Adelaide, 1879), p. 186.

[182] E.J.  Eyre, Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia (London, 1845), ii. 304.

[183] E.J.  Eyre, op. cit. ii. 295.

[184] R. Brough Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 236.

[185] Samuel Gason, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. (1895) p. 171.

[186] Baldwin Spencer and F.J.  Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia (London, 1899), p. 473; idem, Northern Tribes of Central Australia (London, 1904), p. 615.

[187] James Dawson, Australian Aborigines (Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1881), pp. ci. sq.

[188] Rev. William Ridley, “Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, ii. (1873) p. 268.  Compare id., Kamilaroi and other Australian Languages (Sydney, 1875), p. 157.

[189] A.W.  Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (London, 1904.), pp. 776 sq., on the authority of Mr. J.C.  Muirhead.  The Wakelbura are in Central Queensland.  Compare Captain W.E.  Armit, quoted in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, ix. (1880) pp. 459 sq.

[190] Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. (Cambridge, 1904) pp. 196, 207.

[191] Ch.  Keysser, “Aus dem Leben der Kaileute,” in R. Neuhauss’s Deutsch Neu-Guinea (Berlin, 1911), iii. 91.