[223.1] Rattray, 187.
[223.2] Georgi, iii. 89. The information is perhaps derived from the old travellers, Steller and Krasheninnikoff, both of whom mention the custom. See Jesup. Exped., vi. 752.
[224.1] Pechuël-Loesche, 330. Cf. Weeks, 300.
[224.2] F. L., xix. 413.
[225.1] Roscoe, The Baganda (London, 1911), 357 n., 48. Of the King of Nri in Nigeria we are told: “No man is allowed to step over his wives’ legs, nor may anyone commit adultery with them” (Thomas, Ibo, i. 53). This collocation of prohibitions is hardly accidental.
[225.2] Roscoe, 205.
[226.1] I suspect that the requirement mentioned by Professor Frazer (Dying God, 183), of some of the Kaffir tribes, not specified, that the first child born after the second marriage of a widow of a man killed in battle, whether by her first or her second husband, must be put to death, is to be referred to the same cycle of ideas. But I have no access to the authority he cites, which is partly unpublished.
[227.1] Lieut. Hans Kaufmann, Mitteil. aus den Deutschen Schutzgeb. (Berlin, 1910), xxiii. 168.
[228.1] Zeits. v. Rechtsw., xxv. 101, 97, 105.
[228.2] Gouldsbury and Sheane, 171.