[538] According to Mr. Frazer (loc. cit. p. 70), the proportion of tribes with female to those with male descent is as four to one.
[539] Fison and Howitt, loc. cit. pp. 276, 285. Waitz-Gerland, vol. vi. p. 777. Eyre, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 328. Frazer, p. 70.
[540] Taplin, ‘The Narrinyeri,’ in Wood’s, ‘The Native Tribes of South Australia,’ pp. 12, 51.
[541] Gason, in ‘Jour. Anthr. Inst.,’ vol. xvii. p. 186.
[542] Grey, ‘Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia,’ vol. ii. pp. 226, 236.
[543] Marshall, ‘A Phrenologist amongst the Todas,’ p. 206.
[544] Spencer, ‘Descriptive Sociology,’ Asiatic Races, pp. 10, et seq.
[545] Dalton, loc. cit. p. 274.
[546] Rowney, loc. cit. p. 167.
[547] Hunter, ‘The Annals of Rural Bengal,’ vol. i. p. 202.