[168] Ling Roth, Aborigines of Tasmania (2nd ed.), p. 29.
[169] Wood, Natural History of Man, i., p. 261.
[170] From an article, “West African Women,” contributed to the Daily Telegraph.
[171] This is stated by Prof. Bain in his English Composition and Rhetoric, p. 237. I have been unable to verify the statement; but Mr. Ling Roth assures me that the statement is probably correct; and says that he remembers having read recently an account of the amusement of Chinese bystanders on such an occasion, one man putting out a boat—merely to save a hat!
[172] Sarasin, Forschungen auf Ceylon, s. 537.
[173] Sproat, Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (1868), p. 51.
[174] Wood, op. cit., i., p. 261, and Shooter, op. cit., p. 233.
[175] Turnbull, op. cit., p. 372.
[176] Wright, History of Caricature and Grotesque, p. 2.
[177] Cruickshank, loc. cit.