[143] Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia, p. 285.
[144] Sir G. Grey, Journals in Australia, ii. 239.
[145] Williams, Fiji.
[146] Old New Zealand. By a Pakeha Maori, p. 105.
[147] Harmon’s Journal, pp. 299, 300.
[148] Seemann says of Fijian cruelty (Viti, p. 192): ‘Affection for the departed—of course mistaken affection—prompted their relatives or friends to dispatch widows at the time of their husband’s burial,’ &c.
[149] Turner, Polynesia, pp. 294-5.
[150] Mariner, ii. 233.
[151] Pinkerton, xvi. 595, from Froyart’s Loango.
[152] Fitzroy, Voyages of ‘Adventure’ and ‘Beagle,’ ii. 574.