[1199] Scott Nind, “Description of the Natives of King George’s Sound (Swan River Colony),” Journal of the R. Geographical Society, i. (1832) p. 41.
[1200] Sir W. MacGregor, British New Guinea (London, 1897), p. 41.
[1201] Le R. P. Guis, “Les Papous,” Les Missions Catholiques, xxxvi. (1904) p. 334.
[1202] J. Chalmers, “Toaripi,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxvii. (1898) p. 334.
[1203] E. Beardmore, “The Natives of Mowat Daudai, New Guinea,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xix. (1890) p. 464.
[1204] C. G. Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea (Cambridge, 1910), pp. 455 sq.
[1205] M. Krieger, Neu-Guinea (Berlin, n.d.), p. 334.
[1206] R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (Oxford, 1891), p. 46.
[1207] R. H. Codrington, op. cit. p. 52. As to the mana or supernatural power of chiefs and others, see ibid. pp. 118 sqq.; above, pp. [227] sq. I have pointed out (p. [111], note 2) that this supernatural power supplies, as it were, the physical basis of magic.
[1208] Father A. Deniau, “Croyances religieuses et mœurs des indigènes de l’île Malo (Nouvelles-Hébrides),” Les Missions Catholiques, xxxiii. (1901) p. 347.