[4]. See Hopkins’s Religions of India, p. 362 f.
[5]. Ibid., with references to Mahabharata, II., 21, 14, 53; X., 8, 10.
[6]. Ibid., with references to Laws of Manu, IV., 73, and to Gaut. 9 : 32.
[7]. John 10 : 1, 2, 9, 10.
[8]. See Lund’s Every-day Life in Scandinavia in the Sixteenth Century, p. 16, with note 36; also, the Njals Saga.
[9]. See Smith’s Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiq., s. vv. “Athletae” and “Olympic Games;” also Gardner’s New Chapters in Greek History, p. 299.
[10]. See London Folk-Lore Journal, I., 92.
[11]. These facts were given me by a member of the vice-consul’s family, who witnessed the ceremony. The preparations were made before the arrival of General Grant; and they were not prominent in the sight of himself or party. They were simply the customs of the country.
[12]. Prof. A.H. Sayce, in London Folk-Lore, I., 523.