[250] See Post, in Globus, B. lxvii., s. 274.
[251] Palmer, ubi supra, p. 301.
[252] Lafitau, Mœurs des Sauvages Américains, lib. ii., ch. vi.
[253] Musters asserts this positively of the Tehuelche and other tribes (Among the Patagonians, chap. v.); Captain Clark, whose long experience among our Western tribes constituted him an authority of the first rank, takes pains to correct the notion that among the natives wives are bought, although they are by white men (Indian Sign Language, pp. 245-6). It would be easy to multiply references to the same effect.
[254] Bleek, Bushman Folk-lore, p. 13.
[255] Worship of the Romans, p. 67.
[256] This has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt by Dr. S. K. Steinmetz in a remarkable study of “Endo-cannibalismus,” in the Archiv für Anthropologie, 1896.
[257] Granger, ubi supra, p. 37. The word “burial” in ethnology is used to denote all modes of disposal of the corpse. This is etymologically correct. See Yarrow, Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians, p. 5.
[258] Navarrete, Viages, tom. iii., p. 401; Dumont, Mems. Hist. sur la Louisiane, tom. i., p. 178; Gumilla, Hist. del Orinoco, p. 201. Coréal says, the widows esteemed it a privilege to be buried with the corpse and disputed among themselves for the honour, Voiages, tom. ii., pp. 93, 94. The Taenzas had the same customs as the Natchez, Tonty, Mémoire, in French, Hist. Colls. of Louisiana, p. 61.
[259] Arthur J. Evans, in Proc. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Science, 1896, Sect. H.