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{34} Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 268.

{35} Fison, Journal Anthrop. Soc., Nov. 1883.

{36a} Taylor's New Zealand, p. 181.

{36b} This is not the view of le Pere Lafitau, a learned Jesuit missionary in North America, who wrote (1724) a work on savage manners, compared with the manners of heathen antiquity. Lafitau, who was greatly struck with the resemblances between Greek and Iroquois or Carib initiations, takes Servius's other explanation of the mystica vannus, 'an osier vessel containing rural offerings of first fruits.' This exactly answers, says Lafitau, to the Carib Matoutou, on which they offer sacred ca.s.sava cakes.

{37} The Century Magazine, May 1883.

{39} ????? ???a???? ?? e??pta? t? spa?t??? ?a? e? ta?? te?eta?? ed??e?t? ??a ?????. Lobeck, Aglaophamus (i. p. 700).

{40a} De Corona, p. 313.

{40b} Savage Africa. Captain Smith, the lover of Pocahontas, mentions the custom in his work on Virginia, pp. 245-248.

{40c} Brough Smyth, i. 60, using evidence of Howitt, Taplin, Thomas, and Wilhelmi.

{41a} Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 214.

{41b} ?e?? ????se??, c. 15.

{42} Cape Monthly Magazine, July 1874.

{44} Wallace, Travels on the Amazon, p. 349.

{46a} New Zealand, Taylor, pp. 119-121. Die heilige Sage der Polynesier, Bastian, pp. 36-39.

{46b} A crowd of similar myths, in one of which a serpent severs Heaven and Earth, are printed in Turner's Samoa.

{48} The translation used is Jowett's.

{49a} Theog., 166.

{49b} Apollodorus, i. 15.

{50a} Primitive Culture, i. 325.

{50b} Pauthier, Livres sacres de l'Orient, p. 19.

{50c} Muir's Sanskrit Texts, v. 23. Aitareya Brahmana.

{52a} Hesiod, Theog., 497.

{52b} Paus. x. 24.

{54a} Bleek, Bushman Folklore, pp. 6-8.

{54b} Theal, Kaffir Folklore, pp. 161-167.

{54c} Brough Smith, i. 432-433.