[537]. Francisque-Michel, ‘Races Maudites,’ vol. i. p. 17; ‘Argot,’ p. 349; Fernan Caballero, ‘La Gaviota,’ vol. i. p. 59.
[538]. Horne Tooke, ‘Diversions of Purley,’ vol. i. p. 397.
[539]. Baring-Gould, ‘Myths,’ p. 137.
[540]. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 252; Backhouse, ‘Austr.’ p. 557; Purchas, vol. iv. p. 1290; De Laet, ‘Novus Orbis,’ p. 543.
[541]. For various other stories of tailed men, see ‘As. Res.’ vol. iii. p. 149; ‘Mem. Anthrop. Soc.’ vol. i. p. 454; ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. iii. p. 261, &c. (Nicobar Islands); Klemm, ‘C. G.’ vol. ii. pp. 246, 316 (Sarytschew Is.); ‘Letters of Columbus,’ Hakluyt Soc. p. 11 (Cuba), &c., &c.
[542]. Details of monstrous tribes have been in past centuries specially collected in the following works: ‘Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transformed, or the Artificiall Changeling, &c.,’ scripsit J. B. cognomento Chirosophus, M.D., London, 1653; Calovius, ‘De Thaumatanthropologia, vera pariter atque ficta tractatus historico-physicus,’ Rostock, 1685; J. A. Fabricius, ‘Dissertatio de hominibus orbis nostri incolis, &c.,’ Hamburg, 1721. Only a few principal references are here given.
[543]. Grimm, ‘D. M.’ ch. xvii. xviii.; Nilsson, ‘Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia,’ ch. vi.; Hanusch, ‘Slaw. Myth.’ pp. 230, 325-7; Wuttke, ‘Volksabergl.’ p. 231.
[544]. ‘Chronique de Tabari,’ tr. Dubeux, part i. ch. viii. See Koran, xviii. 92.
[545]. Pigafetta in Pinkerton, vol. xi. p. 314. See Blumenbach, ‘De Generis Humanæ Varietate;’ Fitzroy, ‘Voy. of Adventure and Beagle,’ vol. i.; Waitz, ‘Anthropologie,’ vol. iii. p. 488.
[546]. Knivet in Purchas, vol. iv. p. 1231; compare Humboldt and Bonpland, vol. v. p. 564, with Martius, ‘Ethnog. Amer.’ p. 424; see also Krapf, ‘East Africa,’ p. 51; Du Chaillu, ‘Ashango-land,’ p. 319.