The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

by William W. Sanger

[361] The principal facts in this and the following chapter are taken from Mr. Horace St. John’s article on Prostitution, in Mayhew’s “London Labor and the London Poor.”

[362] Russell’s History of Polynesia, p. 75.

[363] Their institution is ascribed to Oro, the god of war. The resemblance between Areoi and Αεης, the Greek god of war, is a coincidence.

[364] South Sea Missions, p. 88.

[365] U. S. Exploring Expedition, vol. ii. p. 22.

[366] Missionary Voyage of Ship Duff, 1796, p. 336.

[367] U. S. Exploring Expedition, vol. ii. p. 80.

[368] Ib. 148.

[369] Wilkes, vol. iv. p. 77.

[370] Since the preceding paragraphs were written, the operations of the Allied Powers against China, and the capture of Canton, have given some farther insight into the domestic economy of this people. The special correspondent of the London Times, writing from Hong Kong, February 22, 1858, thus describes Chinese holidays: