[831] Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, March 7, 1871.—Ellis’s Three Visits to Madagascar, chap. I. VI.
[832] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 61.
[833] Ellis’s Polynesian Researches, Vol. I. ch. 14.
[834] Königswarter, op. cit. p. 202.—E. B. Tylor, in Macmillan’s Magazine, July, 1876.
[835] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 61.
[836] Macpherson’s Memorials of Service in India, London, 1865, p. 83.—See also p. 364 for modes of divination somewhat akin to these.
[837] Lieut. Shaw, in Asiatic Researches, IV. 67, 84.
[838] Patetta, Le Ordalie, pp. 57, 67.
[839] Herod. II. 174.
[840] Oppert et Ménant, Documents Jurid. de l’Assyrie, Paris, 1877, pp. 93, 106, 122, 136, 191, 197, 209, 238, 242, 246, 250, 253.