[1378] Ogilby, Africa, p. 615; Dapper, op. cit. p. 400.
[1379] J. Adams, Sketches taken during ten Voyages to Africa, p. 29; id., Remarks on the Country extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo (London, 1823), p. 111. Compare “My Wanderings in Africa,” by an F.R.G.S. [R. F. Burton], Fraser’s Magazine, lxvii. (April 1863) p. 414.
[1380] W. Allen and T. R. H. Thomson, Narrative of the Expedition to the River Niger in 1841 (London, 1848), i. 288. A slight mental confusion may perhaps be detected in this utterance of the dark-skinned deity. But such confusion, or rather obscurity, is almost inseparable from any attempt to define with philosophic precision the profound mystery of incarnation.
[1381] J. Spieth, Die Ewe-Stämme (Berlin, 1906), p. 419.
[1382] Rev. J. Sibree, “Curiosities of Words connected with Royalty and Chieftainship,” Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, No. xi. (1887) p. 302; id. in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxi. (1892) p. 218.
[1383] Rev. J. Sibree, in Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, No. xi. (1887) p. 307; id. in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxi. (1892) p. 225.
[1384] V. Noel, “Île de Madagascar: recherches sur les Sakkalava,” Bulletin de la Société de Géographie (Paris), Deuxième Série, xx. (1843) p. 56.
[1385] W. W. Skeat, Malay Magic, pp. 23 sq.
[1386] T. J. Newbold, Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlement in the Straits of Malacca, ii. 193. See above, pp. [362]–364.
[1387] W. W. Skeat, op. cit. p. 29.