[584] Martin, “Description of the Western Islands of Scotland,” in Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, iii. 657.
[585] Martin, op. cit. p. 646.
[586] Martin, op. cit. pp. 627 sq.
[587] W. Munzinger, Sitten und Recht der Bogos (Winterthur, 1859), pp. 33 sq. For an Indian example of swearing on a stone see J. Eliot, “Observations on the Inhabitants of the Garrow Hills,” Asiatick Researches, iii. 30 sq. (8vo ed.). On the custom see further my article, “Folk-lore in the Old Testament,” in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor (Oxford, 1907), pp. 131 sqq.
[588] Pausanias, iii. 22. 1; compare id. ii. 31. 4.
[589] Ptolemaeus, Nova Historia, in Photius, Bibliotheca, p. 153, ed. I. Bekker; id. in Mythographi Graeci, ed. A. Westermann, p. 198.
[590] Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 253 sq.
[591] Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. p. 472.
[592] P. J. de Arriaga, Extirpacion de la idolatria del Piru (Lima, 1621), pp. 15, 16, 25
[593] Father Lambert, in Missions Catholiques, xii. (1880) pp. 273, 287, xxv. (1893) pp. 104–106, 116–118; id., Mœurs et Superstitions des Néo-Calédoniens (Nouméa, 1900), pp. 217, 218, 222, 292–304. Compare Glaumont, “Usages, mœurs et coutumes des Néo-Calédoniens,” Revue d’Ethnographie, vii. (1889) pp. 114 sq. (whose account of the stones is borrowed from Father Lambert).