[183] The collection of native Bushman literature is said to have reached eighty-four volumes! In Dr. Bleek’s Brief Account of Bushman Folk-lore, and in the Cape Monthly Magazine for July 1874, some account is given of their mythology.
[184] Comp. Bancroft, i. 771, and Humboldt, Personal Narrative, v. 269.
[185] Steller, Kamschatka, pp. 234, 355.
[186] Schoolcraft, I. T., iii. 191.
[187] Reade, Savage Africa, p. 51; Burton, Dahome, ii. 76; Pinkerton, xvi. 492.
[188] Bancroft, ii. 194, and i. 414, 280. Compare Catlin, i. 170; and Grote’s Greece, for an ordeal at Sparta.
[189] Dieffenbach, p. 667.
[190] Callaway, ii. 196.
[191] Burton, Mission, ii. 157.
[192] Turner, p. 236.