[138] Rev. Duff Macdonald, Africana (1882), i., pp. 266–7.
[139] It is true that this astounding proposition is answered somewhat ironically by Rev. Dr. Folliott, who says, “Give him modern Athens, the learned friend (Brougham) and the sham intellect Society—they will develop his muscles”. Yet it seems odd that this confident assertor was not taken to task for his amazing ignorance.
[140] The dispute may be followed by the curious by turning up the following: Indian Antiquary, vol. viii., p. 316; cf. E. Deschamps, Pays des Veddas, pp. 378–9; The Taprobanian, vol. i., p. 192 ff. The German visitor, Sarasin, upholds the writer in the latter periodical, and says that the Veddas “lachen gerne,” though some of them are bad tempered, and laugh but little. Naturforschungen auf Ceylon, pp. 378 and 540.
[141] Carl von den Steinen, Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens, p. 61.
[142] This applies, of course, to the detection of the whole of the social qualities which make up good-nature. F. Nansen attacks the missionary Egede for his misrepresentation of the Greenlanders in calling them cold-blooded creatures. See Eskimo Life, pp. 100, 101.
[143] Expression of the Emotions, p. 209.
[144] Central Australia (1833), ii., p. 138.
[145] Among Cannibals (1889), p. 291.
[146] Angas, Australia and New Zealand (1847), ii., p. 11.
[147] Bonwick, The Daily Life of the Tasmanians (1870), p. 174.