[404] See the boat-building songs of the Hervey Islanders (Gill, South Pacific, p. 22), which form so striking an analogy to the magical “Runos” of the old Finns. Cf. also Mason, Origins of Invention, p. 150 (Maoris).
[405] Lagrange, Physiologie des exercises du corps, pp. 32-35; Souriau, L’esthétique du movement, pp. 58, 59.
[406] Féré, Sensation et mouvement, p. 12.
[407] Cf. the dynamogenic experiments of Féré, Sensation et mouvement, pp. 13, 14, and the remarks of Schmidkunz, Psychologie der Suggestion, p. 222.
[408] Bücher, Arbeit und Rhythmus, p. 261; Polack, New Zealanders, i. p. 222; ii. pp. 31-32 (on the chiefs who, standing up in the canoes, direct the rowing with help of their spear-truncheons); Kollman, The Victoria Nyanza, p. 164 (Ussukuma).
[409] Cf. pp. 87-91 in the preceding.
[410] Spencer, Principles of Sociology, ii. pp. 271, 272.
[411] Laing, Travels, pp. 252, 253; Brenner, Kannibalen Sumatras, p. 258; Shortland, Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders, pp. 140, 144, 145, 150.
[412] Vodskov, Sjæledyrkelse og Naturdyrkelse, pp. lxxix.-lxxxi.; Ratzel, Völkerkunde, I. Einleitung, p. 89.
[413] On songs and dances connected with boating see Muller, Industrie des Cafres, p. 47; Burton, Gorilla Land, i. pp. 166, 167; Spencer, Descr. Soc. Div. i. Nr. 3, p. 62 (Javanese); Angas, Savage Life, i. p. 102 (Australia, canoe dance of the Rufus); Smyth, Victoria, i. pp. 174, 175 (Australian canoe dance); Rienzi, Océanie, iii. p. 159 (New Zealand), and the facts collected by Bücher, Arbeit und Rhythmus, pp. 180-191.