[178] Ellis, op. cit., i., p. 97.

[179] How easily one may overcharge this indictment of coarse immorality is illustrated by what Von den Steinen says of the laughter of the Brazil Indian women when he asked them the names of the several bodily parts. Some would have taken this to be the low joking of brazen-faced women. He distinctly tells us that it was “just simple innocent laughter,” op. cit., p. 65.

[180] Ling Roth, op. cit., i., p. 72.

[181] Barrow, Hudson’s Bay, p. 32.

[182] Lichtenstein, Travels in Southern Africa, ii., p. 312.

[183] Compare above, pp. 72, 73.

[184] Ellis, op. cit., i., p. 97.

[185] Wood, op. cit., ii., p. 522.

[186] Lichtenstein, op. cit., ii., p. 308.

[187] Burchell, Travels in Southern Africa (1822), vol. ii., p. 339.