[413] Travels, pp. 275–77 (London, 1749).
[414] Colonel A. Lane Fox (Prim. Warfare, i. 38) believes that the ‘Fans and Kafirs (Caffres) are totally different races.’ But both speak dialects of the same tongue, the great South African language. Modern African travellers have traced community of customs from north to south, and from east to west, suggesting extensive intercourse, in former days, throughout the length and breadth of the Dark Continent.
[415] Across Africa, chap. xix., July 1874 (Daldy, Isbister & Co., London, 1877).
[416] Missionary Travels, p. 402 (London, 1857).
[417] Anthrop. Coll. pp. 128–134. ‘Specimens illustrating the geographical distribution of corrugated iron blades, or blades with an ogee section, double skin bellows, and iron work.’ As regards the ogee section, the author should have compared it with the arrow-heads whose plane sides are ‘bellied on a twist’ to cause rotation or rifling.
[418] Diogenes Laertius tells us of Anacharsis only that he ‘wrote also about war.’
[419] As all savage races show, the original anchor was a stone first bound round like a celt, and then pierced for a rope: hence the ‘fugitive stone’ used by the Argonauts as an anchor (Pliny, xxxvii. 24). In the spring of 1880 eight stone anchors of modern shape were found in Piræus harbour, and were sent to the Nautical School at Athens.
[420] Wilkinson, i. 174. Mr. Day, pp. 86, 87.
[421] Hence, too, we see our ‘bellows’ = ‘bellies.’
[422] This word is curiously corrupted in Europe. It is formed upon the model of Dár-Wadái, &c.; and means the abode, region, home (Dár) of the For tribe. My lamented friend General Purdy (Pasha) formerly of the United Slates Army, admirably surveyed it, and died at Cairo in 1881.