[1120] Fr. Boas, “The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay,” Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, xv. (1901) p. 151.
[1121] G. Zündel, “Land und Volk der Eweer auf der Sclavenküste in Westafrika,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, xii. (1877) p. 411. We have met with a somewhat similar charm in North Africa to bring back a runaway slave. See above, p. [152].
[1122] J. Chalmers, Pioneering in New Guinea (London, 1887), p. 172.
[1123] Aeneas Sylvius, Opera (Bâle, 1571), p. 418 [wrongly numbered 420]; A. Thevet, Cosmographie universelle (Paris, 1575), ii. 851.
[1124] R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, ii. 334; E. M. Curr, The Australian Race, i. 50.
[1125] Fancourt, History of Yucatan, p. 118; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Histoire des nations civilisées du Mexique et de l’Amérique-Centrale, ii. 51.
[1126] S. L. Cummins, “Sub-tribes of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Dinkas,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxiv. (1904) p. 164.
[1127] (South African) Folklore Journal, vol. i. part i. (Capetown, 1879) p. 34; Dudley Kidd, Savage Childhood (London, 1906), pp. 147 sq.; Rev. E. Gottschling, “The Bawenda,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxv. (1905) p. 381.
[1128] E. J. Eyre, Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia (London, 1845), ii. 365. The Ovakumbi of Angola place a stone in the fork of a tree as a memorial at any place where they have learned something which they wish to remember. See Ch. Wunenberger, “La Mission et le royaume de Humbé,” Missions Catholiques, xx. (1888) p. 270.
[1129] E. M. Curr, The Australian Race, iii. 145.