[1140] J. Richardson, A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English, New Edition (London, 1829), pp. liii. sq.

[1141] Relations des Jésuites, 1636, p. 38 (Canadian reprint). On the other hand, some of the New South Wales aborigines thought that a wished-for wind would not rise if shell-fish were roasted at night (D. Collins, Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, London, 1804, p. 382).

[1142] J. Mooney, “Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees,” Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1891), pp. 387 sq.

[1143] Annales de l’Association de la Propagation de la Foi, iv. (1830) p. 482.

[1144] C. M. Pleyte, “Ethnographische Beschrijving der Kei Eilanden,” Tijdschrift van het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Tweede Serie, x. (1893) p. 827.

[1145] R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, pp. 200, 201.

[1146] J. Palmer, quoted by R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 201, note.

[1147] Dudley Kidd, Savage Childhood (London, 1906), p. 151.

[1148] B. Hagen, Unter den Papua’s (Wiesbaden, 1899), p. 269.

[1149] W. Monckton, “Some Recollections of New Guinea Customs,” Journal of the Polynesian Society, v. (1896) p. 186.