[39]. A. B. Ellis, The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast (London, 1890), pp. 49 sqq. Compare id., The Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast (London, 1887), pp. 34 sqq.; Missions Catholiques, ix. (1877) p. 71.

[40]. G. Maspero, Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique: les origines (Paris, 1895), pp. 121 sq.

[41]. Merolla, “Voyage to Congo,” in Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, xvi. 236.

[42]. C. C. von der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrika (Leipsic and Heidelberg, 1869-1871), i. 216. The writer does not describe the mode of appeasing the tree-spirit in the case mentioned. As to the Wanika beliefs, see above, p. [12].

[43]. Sir Harry Johnston, The Uganda Protectorate (London, 1902), ii. 832.

[44]. J. B. L. Durand, Voyage au Sénégal (Paris, 1802), p. 119.

[45]. S. J. Curtiss, Primitive Semitic Religion To-day (Chicago, 1902), p. 94.

[46]. A. d’Orbigny, Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale (Paris and Strasburg, 1839-1843), ii. 157, 159 sq.

[47]. A. W. Nieuwenhuis, In Centraal-Borneo (Leyden, 1900), i. 146.

[48]. H. H. Romilly, From my Verandah in New Guinea (London, 1889), p. 86.