[727]. Calmet, vol. i. ch. xli. &c.
[728]. ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. ii. p. 359; vol. iii. pp. 104, 556; Earl, ‘Eastern Seas,’ p. 266; St. John, ‘Far East,’ vol. i. pp. 52, 73, 79, 119; Mundy, ‘Narr. from Brooke’s Journals,’ p. 203. Heads were taken as funeral offerings by the Garos of N. E. India, Eliot in ‘As. Res.’ vol. iii. p. 28, Dalton, ‘Descr. Ethnol. of Bengal,’ p. 67; see also pp. 46-7 (Kukis).
[729]. T. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. pp. 188-204; Mariner, ‘Tonga Is.’ vol. ii. p. 220. For New Zealand accounts, see R. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ pp. 218, 227; Polack, ‘New Zealanders,’ vol. i. pp. 66, 78, 116.
[730]. J. M’Coy, ‘Hist. of Baptist Indian Mission,’ p. 360; Waitz, vol. iii. p. 200.
[731]. Rochefort, ‘Iles Antilles,’ pp. 429, 512; see also J. G. Müller, pp. 174, 222.
[732]. Oviedo, ‘Hist. de las Indias,’ lib. xxix. c. 31; Charlevoix, ‘Nouv. Fr.’ vol. vi. p. 178 (Natchez); Waitz, vol. iii. p. 219. See Brinton, ‘Myths of New World,’ p. 239.
[733]. Brasseur, ‘Mexique,’ vol. iii. p. 573.
[734]. Piedrahita, ‘Nuevo Reyno de Granada,’ part i. lib. i. c. 3.
[735]. Cieza de Leon, p. 161; Rivero and Tschudi, ‘Peruv. Ant.’ p. 200; Prescott, ‘Peru,’ vol. i. p. 29. See statements as to effigies, J. G. Müller, p. 379.
[736]. Simpson, ‘Journey,’ vol. i. p. 190; similar practice among Takulli or Carrier Ind., Waitz, vol. iii. p. 200.