[432] Carver, Travels, pp. 174, 175; Schoolcraft, Information, iii. p. 187, quoting Colden (of 1747) on the Iroquois; Acosta, History of the Indies, ii. p. 444 (Peru); cf. also Lang, Australia, p. 29; Blumentritt, Filippinen, p. 16 (Tagal excitement during the performance of war-pantomimes).
[433] Heckewelder, Hist. of the Indian Nations, p. 209; Schoolcraft, Information ii. p. 59 (N.A. Indians in general); v. pp. 526, 684 (Chippewas and Comanches); Morgan, Iroquois, pp. 268, 339; Burton, City of the Saints, p. 177 (Prairie Indians); Casalis, The Basutos, pp. 334, 335; Czervinski, Geschichte des Tanzes, pp. 251, 252 (Hungary).
[434] Joest, Weltfahrten, ii. pp. 160, 161. On a similar institution among the Negroes see Mantegazza, Physiologie des Hasses, p. 318.
[435] Grey, Journals, ii. p. 303; cf. also Calvert, Western Australia, p. 32; Salvado, Voyage, p. 182.
[436] Sproat, Scenes and Studies, p. 190.
[437] Cf. especially the quotations from Dupuis in Spencer, Descr. Soc. Division I. Nr. 4, p. 47 (Ashantis); Ellis, Pol. Res. i. p. 287 (Tahiti); Cook, (1st) Voyage, p. 344 (New Zealand).
[438] Dobrizhoffer, The Abipones, ii. pp. 366, 367, 422-424, 427; Thomson, New Zealand, i. pp. 126, 169.
[439] Dobrizhoffer, l.c. pages adduced above; Steinen, Durch Central-Brazilien, p. 175, cf. also p. 165.
[440] Cf. Dobrizhoffer, l.c. ii. pp. 376, 385 sq.
[441] Cf. Ellis, Pol. Res. i. p. 286 (Tahiti); Spencer, Descr. Soc. Division I. Nr. 3, p. 15 (Fiji); Thomson, New Zealand, i. p. 128; Pritchard, Pol. Rem. p. 56; Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, ii. pp. 58, 59, 280, 356 (Australia, Fiji, Samoa).