[807] This process of ‘mixing bloods,’ as a token of brotherhood, is familiar to all travellers in pagan Africa.
[808] ii. 2.
[809] Mycenæ, &c. (London: Murray, 1878). It is regretable that this handsome and expensive volume should be printed upon blotting paper.
[810] Il. i. 320.
[811] These illustrations are from photographs bought at Athens.
[812] ix. 29–31.
[813] P. 307.
[814] Troy, 330–31.
[815] P. 279.
[816] Jähns (pp. 91, 92) cannot but suspect that many of the weapons which show a marked Oriental cast are not Atreidan but Carian. This tribe about the thirteenth century b.c. spread itself, under the mythical king Minos, over the Ægean Archipelago, and colonised even the seaboard of Greece. Such words as Hymettos, Lykabettos, &c. are supposed to be Carian. The symbol of their gods was the double-axe, so common in Mycenæ; and, as Thucydides said, their practice was to bury weapons with the dead, which was not customary in Greece.