[387] Numerous instances could be given. Thus Livingstone ('Travels,' p. 217) states that the King of the Barotse, an inland tribe which never had any communication with white men, was extremely fond of taming animals, and every young antelope was brought to him. Mr. Galton informs me that the Damaras are likewise fond of keeping pets. The Indians of South America follow the same habit. Capt. Wilkes states that the Polynesians of the Samoan Islands tamed pigeons; and the New Zealanders, as Mr. Mantell informs me, kept various kinds of birds.
[388] For analogous cases with the fowl, see Réaumur, 'Art de faire Eclorre,' &c., 1749, p. 243; and Col. Sykes, in 'Proc. Zoolog. Soc.,' 1832, &c. With respect to the fowl not breeding in northern regions, see Latham's 'Hist. of Birds,' vol. viii., 1823, p. 169.
[389] 'Mém. par divers Savans, Acad. des Sciences,' tom. vi., 1835, p. 347.
[390] Youatt on Sheep, p. 181.
[391] J. Mills, 'Treatise on Cattle,' 1776, p. 72.
[392] Bechstein, 'Stubenvögel,' s. 242.
[393] Crawfurd's 'Descriptive Dict. of the Indian Islands,' 1856, p. 145.
[394] 'Bull. de la Soc. Acclimat., tom. ix., 1862, pp. 380, 384.
[395] For pigeons, see Dr. Chapuis, 'Le Pigeon Voyageur Belge,' 1865, p. 66.
[396] 'Swedish Acts,' vol. i., 1739, p. 3. Pallas makes the same remark in his Travels (Eng. translat.), vol. i. p. 292.