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[545]. Farmer, ‘Tonga,’ p. 126; Mariner, vol. ii. p. 106.

[546]. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. p. 217, &c.

[547]. Turner, ‘Polynesia,’ p. 238.

[548]. Shortland, ‘Trads. of N. Z.ch. iv.

[549]. Marsden, ‘Sumatra,’ p. 292.

[550]. Loskiel, ‘Ind. of N. A.’ part i. p. 40; Catlin, ‘N. A. Ind.’ vol. i. p. 36; Schoolcraft, ‘Tribes,’ part i. p. 34, part v. p. 652; Waitz, vol. iii. p. 190.

[551]. See ante, p. [8]; Callaway, ‘Rel. of Amazulu,’ p. 196.

[552]. Steinhauser, ‘Religion des Negers,’ l.c. p. 133. J. L. Wilson, ‘W. Afr.pp. 210, 218. Schlegel, ‘Ewe-Sprache,’ p. xv.

[553]. Bosman, ‘Guinea,’ letter 19; in Pinkerton, vol. xvi. p. 499. See Burton, ‘Dahome,’ ch. iv., xvii. An account of the Vaudoux serpent-worship still carried on among the negroes of Hayti, in ‘Lippincott’s Magazine,’ Philadelphia, March, 1870.