[173] Gill, Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, p. 154.
[174] Ibid., p. 38.
[175] Catlin, North American Indians, i. 157.
[176] Bancroft, iii. 519; and other instances in the same work, chapter xii.
[177] Williams, Fiji, p. 247.
[178] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, v. 403, 404.
[179] Dr. Brinton (p. 250) says that no ethical bearing was assigned to the myth of the future by the red race till they were taught by Europeans, and that all Father Brebeuf could find was, that the souls of suicides and persons killed in war lived apart from others after death.
[180] Bowen, Central Africa, p. 285.
[181] Mariner, Tongan Islands, ii. 154.
[182] Peschel, 428-31.