[322] Delano, Life on the Plains, p. 346. In Notes and Queries, 1861, vol. xii. 414, it is said that in Wales a girl would often escape a disliked suitor through the custom of the pursuit on horseback—by taking a line of country of her own.

[323] Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 16, 194, 234, 252, 319.

[324] Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazon, p. 382.

[325] Marsden, Sumatra, p. 269.

[326] Denham, Discoveries in Africa, i. 32-35.

[327] Dobritzhoffer, ii. 97.

[328] Wuttke, Heidenthum, i. 185. ‘Die Guanas in Amerika begraben ihre Kinder lebendig, besonders die Mädchen, um diese seltner und gesuchter zu machen.’

[329] Dalton, p. 192.

[330] Colonel Dalton, in Trans. Eth. Soc., vi. 27.

[331] Elphinstone, Cabul, i. 239; ii. 23.