[395] Wood’s Wedding Day, p. 144.
[396] Mason, in Journ. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. XXXV., Part II., p. 17; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., V., 9.
[397] Andersson’s Lake Ngami, p. 220 f.
[398] Shooter’s Kafirs of Natal, p. 77.
[399] Williams and Calvert’s Fiji and the Fijians, p. 134.
[400] See Monier Williams’s Sanskrit Dictionary, s. v.
[401] See Pike’s Sub-Tropical Rambles, p. 198.
[402] See pages [77], [165], supra.
[403] This Oriental custom gives an added meaning to the suggestion, that Christ was sent to bring us to his Father, “that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4 : 5).
[404] The citations above made are from Roberts’s Oriental Illustrations of the Scriptures, p. 574, and from Dubois’s Des. of Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. 22; the latter being from the Directory or Ritual of the Purohitas.