[298] Pliny, ‘Historia Naturalis,’ book v. ch. 8: ‘Garamantes, matrimoniorum exsortes, passim cum foeminis degunt.... Blemmyis traduntur capita abesse, ore et oculis pectori affixis.'

[299] Rowney, loc. cit. pp. 140, 142, 143.

[300] Bailey, in ‘Trans. Ethn. Soc.,’ N. S.  vol. ii. p. 293.

[301] Brough Smyth, loc. cit. vol. i. pp. 85, et seq.

[302] Post, ‘Die Grundlagen des Rechts,’ p. 187. Cf. Wilken, in ‘De Indische Gids,’ 1880, vol. ii. p. 1195.

[303] Barrow, loc. cit. vol. i. p.  206.

[304] Proyart, ‘History of Loango,’ in Pinkerton, ‘Collection of Voyages,’ vol. xvi. p. 568.

[305] Reade, loc. cit. p. 261.

[306] Forbes, ‘Dahomey and the Dahomans,’ vol. i. p.  26.

[307] Barth, ‘Reisen in Nord-und Central-Afrika,’ vol. ii. p. 18.