[507]. Sir John Maundevile, ‘Voiage and Travaile.’
[508]. Sir Thomas Browne, ‘Vulgar Errours,’ ii. 3.
[509]. ‘Mémoires conc. l’Hist., &c., des Chinois,’ vol. iv. p. 457. Compare the story of the magnetic (?) horseman in ‘Thousand and One N.’ vol. iii. p. 119, with the old Chinese mention of magnetic cars with a movable-armed pointing figure, A. v. Humboldt, ‘Asie Centrale,’ vol. i. p. xl.; Goguet, vol. iii. p. 284. (The loadstone mountain has its power from a turning brazen horseman on the top.)
[510]. Brasseur, ‘Popol Vuh,’ pp. 23-31. Compare this Central American myth of the ancient senseless mannikins who become monkeys, with a Pottowatomi legend in Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ part i. p. 320.
[511]. Dos Santos, ‘Ethiopia Oriental,’ Evora, 1609, part i. chap. ix.; Callaway, ‘Zulu Tales,’ vol. i. p. 177. See also Burton, ‘Footsteps in E. Afr.’ p. 274; Waitz, ‘Anthropologie,’ vol. ii. p. 178 (W. Afr.).
[512]. D’Orbigny, ‘L’Homme Américain,’ vol. ii. p. 102.
[513]. Weil, ‘Bibl. Leg. der Muselmänner,’ p. 267; Lane, ‘Thousand and One N.’ vol. iii. p. 350; Burton, ‘El Medinah, &c.’ vol. ii. p. 343.
[514]. Ovid, ‘Metamm.’ xiv. 89-100; Welcker, ‘Griechische Götterlehre,’ vol. iii. p. 108.
[515]. Campbell in ‘Journ. As. Soc. Bengal,’ 1866, part ii. p. 132; Latham, ‘Descr. Eth.’ vol. ii. p. 456; Tod, ‘Annals of Rajasthan,’ vol. i. p. 114.
[516]. Bourien in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iii. p. 73; see ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. ii. p. 271.