[195] L. Hösel, “Die Rechteckige Schrägdachhütte Mittelafrikas,” Globus, 1894, vol. xxvi., pp. 341, 360, and 378, with map.
[196] There are many other types of dwellings peculiar to different regions: the reed-built houses of Lob Nor (Eastern Turkestan), the Finnish houses derived from semi-underground structures, the dwellings of the Caucasian mountaineers, etc.
[197] This tent has never, as a general rule, been placed among the Turco-Mongols on a waggon, to be carried from place to place, as authors have been pleased to affirm, from Rubruquis to our own day. The habit in question has only existed in some Nogaï tribes, and has only been practised in special circumstances (marriage, conveyance of women), the survival of which is found among the Tatars of Koundrov, near Astrakhan.
[198] Kharouzin, Istoria, etc. (History of the Development of the Habitation among Turco-Mongol Nomads of Russia), Moscow, 1896 (in Russian).
[199] It is possible that in Western Europe a hard leaf of some plant folded in a certain way has served as a model for the lamps with wicks called Roman, to judge from certain actual forms.—Letourneau and Papillault, Bull. Soc. Anthr. Paris, 1896, p. 348. Vinchon, ibid., p. 615.
[200] Neis, Excursions et Reconnaissances, Saigon, vol. x., p. 33, 1881.
[201] Von den Steinen, Unter d. Naturvölk, Zent. Brazil, Berlin, 1894, p. 190.
[202] Glaumont, “Usages, etc.,” Rev. d’Ethnogr., Paris, 1888, p. 101.
[203] C. Davidson, “Das Nackte, etc.,” Globus, vol. lxx., 1896, No. 18.
[204] Mme. Dr. Gaches-Sarraute, L’Hygiène du Corset, Paris, 1896.