[41] Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien, ii. 16.
[42] Southey, op. cit. i. 247.
[43] Im Thurn, Among the Indians of Guiana, p. 213.
[44] Matthews, ‘Study of Ethics among the Lower Races,’ in Journal of American Folk-Lore, xii. 9.
[45] Eastman, Dacotah, p. ix.
[46] Mackenzie, Voyages from Montreal to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, p. 137 sq.
[47] Veniaminof, quoted by Dall, op. cit. p. 395.
[48] Murdoch, ‘Ethnol. Results of the Point Barrow Expedition,’ in Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn. ix. 42. See also Seemann, Voyage of ‘Herald,’ ii. 67 (Western Eskimo).
Of the Tunguses it is said, “If you make them a present, they hardly thank you; but though so unpolite, they are exceedingly grateful.”[49] The Jakuts never forget a benefit received; “for they not only make restitution, but recommend to their offspring the ties of friendship and gratitude to their benefactors.”[50] The Veddah of Ceylon is described as very grateful for attention or assistance.[51] “A little kindly sympathy makes him an attached friend, and for his friend … he will readily give his life.”[52] Mr. Bennett once had an interview with two village Veddahs, and on that occasion gave them presents. Two months after a couple of elephant’s tusks found their way into his front verandah at night, but the Veddahs who had brought them never gave him an opportunity to reward them. “What a lesson in gratitude and delicacy,” he exclaims, “even a Veddah may teach!”[53]
[49] Georgi, Russia, iii. 111.