How great a part of the boastful expressions of contempt for the enemy plays in the warfare of the American tribes can be seen from Heriot, Travels, p. 449 (Iroquois). Cf. also Eyre, Expeditions into Central Australia, ii. p. 224; Schweinfurth, Im Herzen von Afrika, ii. p. 25 (Niam Niam); Shooter, The Kafirs, pp. 197-199; Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, i. p. 581 (Cammas).
[442] Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, i. p. 581. A typical and instructive example of undangerous warfare on the Marshall Islands is described by Finsch in Ethnologische Erfahrungen, p. 392.
[443] Bidwill, Rambles in New Zealand, p. 81; cf. Cook, (3rd) Voyage, pp. 161, 162.
[444] (Maning), Old New Zealand, p. 49; Polack, New Zealanders, i. p. 88; ii. pp, 166, 167.
[445] Polack, l.c. i. p. 28.
[446] Richardson, Arctic Expedition, i. p. 356; Bancroft, Native Races, i. p. 68.
[447] Angas, Savage Life, ii. pp. 149, 150; Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, ii. pp. 161, 162.
[448] Macpherson, Memorials of Service in India, p. 79.
[449] Cf. Grosse, Anfänge der Kunst, pp. 58-60.
[450] Wuttke, Geschichte der Schrift, p. 74, quoting Silius Italicus, Aelianus, and Valerius Maximus. Further quotations adduced in Farrer, Military Manners and Customs, pp. 222-224. Cf. also Letourneau, La guerre, p. 153.