Primitive Manners and Customs

by James Anson Farrer

[203] Bancroft, i. 109

[204] In Papworth’s Ordinary of British Armorials, no less than 124 pages are filled with the names of families who take their crest from some animal; 34 pages of families take their crests from the lion alone.

[205] Herberstein, i. 32.

[206] Kempper, Japan; Pinkerton, vii. 718.

[207] Turner, p. 343.

[208] Reade, Savage Africa, p. 43.

[209] Burton, Mission, ii. 367; and Bowen, Central Africa, p. 318.

[210] Jarves, History of Hawaii, pp. 21, 23.

[211] Ellis, Polynesian Researches, iii. 97.

[212] See Klemm, iii. 330, for the custom in Loango; Reade, Savage Africa, p. 43, for that in Ashantee; and Peschel, Races of Man, p. 235, for other instances.