[42] Shortland, Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders, p. 213 sq. Cf. ibid. p. 218 sq.

[43] Turner, Samoa, p. 317.

[44] Hanoteau and Letourneux, La Kabylie, iii. 61.

[45] Burckhardt, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahábys, p. 85. See, also, Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, p. 306; Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, i. 133.

[46] Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, p. 128.

[47] 2 Samuel, xiv. 7. Cf. ibid. xxi.

[48] Dautremer, ‘The Vendetta or Legal Revenge in Japan,’ in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, xiii. 84.

[49] Griffis, Corea, p. 227.

[50] Spiegel, Erânische Alterthumskunde, iii. 687. Polak, Persien, ii. 96.

[51] Dubois, Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India, p. 195.