[54] “Festus,” p. 28.
[55] II. 405, ed. Burm.
[56] Max Müller: “Lectures,” ii. p. 179 (8th edition).
[57] Whitney: “Life and Growth of Language,” p. 120.
[58] See I. Disraeli: “Curiosities of Literature,” vol. iii. pp. 79, 80.
[59] Milligan: “Vocabulary of the Dialects of some of the Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania,” p. 34.
[60] See Mr. Hartshorne’s Paper read before the British Association (1875).
[61] “Tropical South Africa,” p. 132.
[62] “Journal of the Anthropological Institute,” vi. 2 (Oct, 1876), p. 119.
[63] A “pig” is called poro-poro, and the act of “eating” nam-nam. We must remember, however, that just as a nurse will speak to a child in nursery-language, so a savage on being asked the name of an object may have recourse to onomatopœia, instead of giving the real native word.