[1259] Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5. 14.
[1260] Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 73.
[1261] G. Turner, Samoa, pp. 304 sq.
[1262] A. Pfizmayer, “Nachrichten von den alten Bewohnern des heutigen Corea,” Sitzungsberichte der philos.-histor. Classe der kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), lvii. (1868) pp. 483 sq. It would seem that the Chinese reported similarly of the Roman emperors. See Hirth, China and the Roman Orient, pp. 41, 44, 52, 58, 70, 78.
[1263] N. B. Dennis, Folklore of China (London and Hongkong, 1876), p. 125. An account of the Peking Gazette, the official publication of the Chinese government, may be read in Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, Nouvelle Edition, xxi. 95–182.
[1264] Mgr Havard, in Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, vii. (1834) pp. 470–473.
[1265] Gio. Filippo de Marini, Historia et relatione del Tunchino et del Giappone (Rome, 1665), pp. 137 sq.; Relation nouvelle et curieuse des royaumes de Tunquin et de Lao, traduite de l’Italien du P. Mariny (sic) Romain (Paris, 1666), pp. 258 sq.
[1266] H. H. Bancroft, The Native Races of the Pacific States, ii. 146.
[1267] Geo. Catlin, Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians⁴ (London, 1844), i. 40 sq.
[1268] W. L. Hardisty, “The Loucheux Indians,” Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1866, pp. 312, 316.