[35] Thomson, Savage Island, p. 104. See also ibid. p. 94.
[36] Pritchard, Polynesian Reminiscences, p. 57.
[37] Seemann, Viti, p. 401. Cf. Williams and Calvert, op. cit. p. 97 sq.; Erskine, Islands of the Western Pacific, p. 248.
[38] Smith, in Jour. Polynesian Society, i. 39.
[39] Haddon, in Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, v. 277.
[40] Romilly, Western Pacific, p. 73. Penny, Ten Years in Melanesia, p. 46. Codrington, op. cit. p. 345.
[41] Romilly, Western Pacific, p. 76.
[42] Bock, Head-Hunters of Borneo, pp. 216, 221, &c. (Dyaks). Bickmore, Travels in the East Indian Archipelago, p. 205 (Alfura of Ceram). Dalton, op. cit. p. 40 (Nagas of Upper Assam).
[43] The well-known practice of scalping, though very common, was not universal among the North American Indians (see Gibbs, ‘Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon,’ in Contributions to N. American Ethnology, i. 192; Powers, Tribes of California, p. 321).
[44] McGee, ‘Seri Indians,’ in Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol. xvii. 132.