The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) / The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

by James George Frazer

Footnote 660:[ (return) ]

This is the opinion of my late friend, the Rev. Lorimer Fison, which he communicated to me in a letter dated 26th August, 1898.

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Communication of the late Rev. Lorimer Fison in a letter to me dated 3rd November, 1898. I have already published it in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 29 sq.

Footnote 662:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 242; Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, pp. 163 sq.; Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 39 sq.

Footnote 663:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 250.

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Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 248.

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Lorimer Fison, op. cit. p. xxxii.

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Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 248 sq.; Lorimer Fison, op. cit. pp. xxxi. sq.

Footnote 667:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 249.

Footnote 668:[ (return) ]

Basil Thomson, The Fijians (London, 1908), p. 166. A rara is a public square (Rev. Lorimer Fison, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xiv. (1885) p. 17).

Footnote 669:[ (return) ]

Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 241.