Footnote 707:[ (return) ]
Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 191 sq.
Footnote 708:[ (return) ]
Th. Williams, Fiji and the Fijians, i. 223, 231.
Footnote 709:[ (return) ]
Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 87; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 226, 227; Basil Thomson, The Fijians, pp. 157 sqq.
Footnote 710:[ (return) ]
Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 87 sq.; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 224 sq.; Capt. J. E. Erskine, op. cit. p. 250; Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji (London, 1904), pp. 166 sq. As for the treatment of castaways, see J. E. Erskine, op. cit. p. 249; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 210. The latter writer mentions a recent case in which fourteen or sixteen shipwrecked persons were cooked and eaten.
Footnote 711:[ (return) ]
The Rev. Lorimer Fison, in a letter to me dated August 26th, 1898. I have already quoted the passage in The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 378.
Footnote 712:[ (return) ]
Th. Williams, Fiji and the Fijians, i. 225 sq.
Footnote 713:[ (return) ]
Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 231.
Footnote 714:[ (return) ]
Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 97; Th. Williams, op. cit. i. 53.
Footnote 715:[ (return) ]
John Jackson's Narrative, in Capt. J. E. Erskine's Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific (London, 1853), pp. 464 sq., 472 sq. The genital members of the men over whom the canoe was dragged were cut off and hung on a sacred tree (akau-tambu), "which was already artificially prolific in fruit, both of the masculine and feminine gender." The tree which bore such remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous situation. As to these sacrifices compare Ch. Wilkes, op. cit. iii. 97; Lorimer Fison, Tales from Old Fiji, pp. xvi. sq.
Footnote 716:[ (return) ]
Th. Williams, op. cit. i, 112.