[26] Veniaminof, quoted by Petroff, op. cit. p. 158 (Atkha Aleuts). Keating, op. cit. ii. 171 (Chippewas). Dalton, op. cit. p. 206; Jickell, in Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, ix. 807 (Hos). Colquhoun, Amongst the Shans, p. 76 sq. (Lethtas). Mac Mahon, Far Cathay, p. 241 (Tarus, one of the Chino-Burmese border tribes). Brooke, op. cit. i. 55 (Sea Dyaks). Chalmers, Pioneer Life and Work in New Guinea, p. 227 (a woman at Port Moresby; Mr. Abel [Savage Life in New Guinea, p. 102] speaks of a New Guinea woman who was so annoyed because her old village friends had not visited her during her illness that she attempted to commit suicide). Codrington, op. cit. p. 243 sq. (natives of the Banks’ Islands and Northern New Hebrides). Williams and Calvert, op. cit. p. 106 (Fijians). Tregear, in Jour. Polynesian Soc. ii. 14 (Savage Islanders). Dieffenbach, op. cit. ii. 111 sq.; Collins, op. cit. i. 524; Angas, Savage Life in Australia and New Zealand, ii. 45; Colenso, op. cit. p. 56 sq. (Maoris). Ward, Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, p. 45 (Bakongo). Lasch, ‘Besitzen die Naturvölker ein persönliches Ehrgefühl?’ in Zeitschr. f. Socialwissenschaft, iii. 837 sqq.
[27] See Lasch, ‘Rache als Selbstmordmotiv,’ in Globus, lxxiv. 37 sqq.; Steinmetz, ‘Gli antichi scongiuri giuridici contro i creditori,’ in Rivista italiana di sociologia, ii. 49 sqq.
[28] Ellis, Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast, p. 302. The same custom is mentioned by Monrad (op. cit. p. 23 sq.), Bowdich (Mission to Ashantee, pp. 256, 257, 259 n. ‡), and Reade (Savage Africa, p. 554).
[29] Thomson, Savage Island, p. 109.
[30] Krause, Die Tlinkit-Indianer, p. 222.
[31] Lebedew, ‘Die simbirskischen Tschuwaschen,’ in Erman’s Archiv für wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, ix. 586 n. **
[32] Buch, ‘Die Wotjaken,’ in Acta Soc. Scient. Fennicæ, xii. 611 sq.
[33] See Lasch, ‘Religiöser Selbstmord und seine Beziehung zum Menschenopfer.’ in Globus, lxxv. 69 sqq.
[34] Skrzyncki, ‘Der Selbstmord bei den Tschuktschen,’ in Am Ur-Quell, v. 207 sq.
[35] Ashe, Two Kings of Uganda, p. 342 (Wahuma). Johnston, Uganda Protectorate, ii. 610 (Bairo). Junghuhn, Die Battaländer auf Sumatra, ii. 340 (natives of Bali and Lombok).