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[648]. Shürmann, ‘Vocab. of Parnkalla Lang.’ s.v.

[649]. Tanner’s ‘Narr.’ p. 291; Keating, ‘Narr. of Long’s Exp.’ vol. ii. p. 154.

[650]. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 242; see the converse process of catching away a man’s soul, causing him to pine and die, p. 250.

[651]. J. L. Wilson, ‘W. Afr.p. 220.

[652]. Bastian, ‘Mensch,’ vol. ii. p. 319; also Sproat, p. 213 (Vancouver’s I.).

[653]. Bastian, ‘Psychologie,’ p. 34; Gmelin, ‘Reisen durch Sibirien,’ vol. ii. p. 359 (Yakuts); Ravenstein, ‘Amur,’ p. 351 (Tunguz).

[654]. Bastian, ‘Oestl. Asien,’ vol. i. p. 143; vol. ii. pp. 388, 418; vol. iii. p. 236. Mason, ‘Karens,’ l.c. p. 196, &c.; Cross, ‘Karens,’ in ‘Journ. Amer. Oriental Soc.vol. iv. 1854, p. 307. See also St. John, ‘Far East,’ l.c. (Dayaks).

[655]. Doolittle, ‘Chinese,’ vol. i. p. 150.

[656]. Cardan, ‘De Varietate Rerum,’ Basel, 1556, cap. xliii.