[247] Im Thurn, Indians of Guiana, pp. 403-410. On similar grounds the application of Herr Andree’s theory to the North American Petroglyphs has been opposed by Mallery, in Rep. Bur. Ethnol. x. pp. 28, 29 (“Picture-writing of the American Indians”).
[248] Svoboda, in Archiv für Ethnographie, v. pp. 162, 163. Cf. also Meyer, Bilderschriften des Ostindischen Archipels, p. 1.
[249] Cf. Grey, Journals, ii. p. 310.
[250] As typical illustrations of this class of legends we may instance the Polynesian poems quoted by Fornander, The Polynesian Race, ii. 12-19, 284-286.
[251] Cf. pp. 160, 161, in the preceding, and Gill, From Darkness to Light, pp. 248-264.
[252] See Ellis, Polynesian Researches, i. p. 286; iv. pp. 79, 101, 105; Pritchard, Polynesian Reminiscences, p. 125; Polack, New Zealanders, ii. p. 167; and, above all, the collection of traditional war-poetry from the Hervey Group, published by Gill in From Darkness to Light.
[253] Cf. above, p. 165.
[254] Oviedo, Histoire des Indes, pp. 69, 70; Markham, in the Introduction to his translation of Ollanta, pp. 1, 2; Spencer, Descr. Soc. ii. pp. 13, 68, 70, 71; Forbes, Dahomey, ii. p. 13. On historical songs among the military tribes of Africa cf. also Shooter, The Kafirs, p. 268; Burton, Lake Regions, i. p. 263 (Wagogos). As regards the influence of war on early Arab poetry see Posnett, Comparative Literature, p. 133.
[255] Cf. e.g. the humble traditions of the Kubus, as quoted by Forbes, Wanderings, p. 243.
[256] Laing, Travels, p. 186 (Village Kamia); Dobrizhoffer, The Abipones, ii. pp. 430, 431.