[99] As to a custom of putting the first-born to death, see The Dying God, pp. 178 sqq.; and for other reported instances of the custom, see Mrs. James Smith, The Booandik Tribe of South Australia (Adelaide, 1880), pp. 7 sq.; C. E. Fox, "Social Organisation in San Cristoval, Solomon Islands," Journal of the R. Anthropological Institute, xlix. (1919) p. 100; E. O. Martin, The Gods of India (London and Toronto, 1914), p. 215; N. W. Thomas, Anthropological Report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, Part i. (London, 1913) p. 12. Compare E. Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (London, 1906), i. 458 sqq.
[100] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, ii. 110 sq., 130, 131, 139, 140.
[101] Captain James Cook, Voyages, v. 423.
[102] Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, iii. 23. The writer here speaks of Bulotu, where he should have said Hikuleo. See above, [p. 89, note1].
[103] W. Mariner, Tongan Islands, ii. 97, 99, 103, 109 sq. See above, pp. [64 sq.], [66].
[104] W. Mariner, ii. 130 sq.; compare id. pp. 99, 103 sq., 109 sq.
[105] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, i. 104 sq.
[106] W. Mariner, Tonga Islands, ii. 110, 130 sq.
[107] W. Mariner, op. cit. i. 423 sq.
[108] W. Mariner, op. cit. ii. 99, 131.