[{252}] Totem is the word generally given by travellers and interpreters for the family crests of the Red Indians. Cf. p. 105.
[{256}] Domestic Manners of the Chinese, i. 99.
[{258}] Fortnightly Review, June 1, 1877.
[{259}] Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Natives call these objects their kin, ‘of one flesh’ with them.
[{260}] Studies, p. 11.
[{265a}] O’Curry, Manners of Ancient Irish, l. ccclxx., quoting Trin. Coll. Dublin MS.
[{265b}] See also Elton’s Origins of English History, pp. 299-301.
[{265c}] Kemble’s Saxons in England, p. 258. Politics of Aristotle, Bolland and Lang, p. 99. [{265d}]
[{265d}] Mr. Grant Allen kindly supplied me some time ago with a list of animal and vegetable names preserved in the titles of ancient English village settlements. Among them are: ash, birch, bear (as among the Iroquois), oak, buck, fir, fern, sun, wolf, thorn, goat, horse, salmon (the trout is a totem in America), swan (familiar in Australia), and others.
[{267}] ‘Gentiles sunt qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Qui ab ingeniis oriundi sunt. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Qui capite non sunt deminuti.’