[1248] ‘Verhandl. Berl. Ges. Anthr.,’ 1885, p. 96.
[1249] The same kind of mutilation, spoken of by Mr. Curr as ‘the terrible rite,’ occurs among several other Australian tribes (Curr, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 75; Mathew, in ‘Jour. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales,’ vol. xxiii. p. 411).
[1250] Schürmann, loc. cit. p. 231.
[1251] Finsch, in ‘Zeitschr. f. Ethnol.,’ vol. xii. p. 316.
[1252] Abyssinians (Waitz, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 504), Barea (Munzinger, loc. cit. p. 528), Negroes of Benin and Sierra Leone (Bosman, loc. cit. p. 526. Griffith, in ‘Jour. Anthr. Inst.,’ vol. xvi. p. 308, et seq.), Mandingoes (Waitz, vol. ii. p. 111), Bechuanas (Holub, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 398), Kafirs (v. Weber, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 218), Malays of Java (Ploss, ‘Das Weib,’ vol. i. p. 146), Indians of Peru (ibid., vol. i. p. 146).
[1253] Ploss, vol. i. p. 143.
[1254] Finsch, in ‘Zeitschr. f. Ethnol.,’ vol. xii. p. 316.
[1255] Macgillivray, loc. cit. vol. i. p. 263.
[1256] Forster, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 383.
[1257] v. Humboldt, loc. cit. vol. vi. pp. 12, et seq.