[213] Savage Africa, p. 48.
[214] Williams, p. 40.
[215] Santo, Eastern Ethiopia. Pink, xvi. 698.
[216] Dieffenbach, ii. 100.
[217] Mariner, Tonga Islands, i. 100. It has generally been thought best, in referring to books written some time ago, to employ the past tense where possibly the present would still be applicable. Wherever the present is used, it must be taken to refer not necessarily to the actual present but to the present of the original authority for the fact.
[218] Steller, Kamschatka, p. 356.
[219] Eschwege, Brazilien, i. 221.
[220] Bancroft, Native Races of Pacific States, i. 168.
[221] Catlin, ii. 240.
[222] Pinkerton. Bosnian, Guinea, xvi. 406.