[71] See map.
[72] The word “nation” is here used in the sense that it is commonly used in connection with the tribal groupings of the American Indians.
[73] See Totemism and Exogamy (vol. i), by Sir James Frazer.
[74] Even under “conditions of civilization,” however, eugenists hold that more male infants than female are born, but fewer reach maturity. Among primitive peoples the disproportion seems greater; that is, except among those tribes where the women are deliberately fattened—supposedly to enhance their beauty—as is the case with certain of the African tribes; or except among those where polygamy exists, which Frazer suggests may tend to increase the proportion of females (see Totemism and Exogamy, vol. i.).
[75] This attitude of reverencing the priestesses as rain-destroyers is in curious contrast with that of certain African tribes (e.g. the Dinkas and Shilluks, according to Dr. Seligman), with whom the king—who is also chief priest—is called “rain-maker”; this difference of point of view of course being due to difference of climatic conditions.
[76] The resemblance of certain members of the Yami tribe to the Papuans—such as those of the Solomon Islands—has already been noted (p. 103).
[77] See frontispiece.
[78] Melia japonica.