[142] This applies, of course, to the detection of the whole of the social qualities which make up good-nature. F. Nansen attacks the missionary Egede for his misrepresentation of the Greenlanders in calling them cold-blooded creatures. See _Eskimo Life_, pp. 100, 101. [143] _Expression of the Emotions_, p. 209. [144] _Central Australia_ (1833), ii., p. 138. [145] _Among Cannibals_ (1889), p. 291. [146] Angas, _Australia and New Zealand_ (1847), ii., p. 11. [147] Bonwick, _The Daily Life of the Tasmanians_ (1870), p. 174. [148] Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_ (1832), i., p. 96. [149] Turnbull, _A Voyage Round the World_ (1813), p. 372. [150] Erskine, _The Western Pacific_ (1853), p. 159. [151] _Natives of Sarawak and Brit. N. Borneo_, i., p. 84. [152] Rev. Jos. Shooter, _The Kafirs of Natal_ (1857), p. 232. [153] Cruickshank, _The Gold Coast of Africa_ (1853), ii., p. 253. [154] Hind, _Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition_ (1860), ii., p. 135. Other examples of the mirthfulness of savages are given by Herbert Spencer, _Descriptive Sociology_, Div. I., Pt. 2—A. [155] Cruickshank, _Gold Coast of Africa_, _loc. cit._ [156] Musters, _At Home with the Patagonians_ (1873), p. 167. [157] _Saugethiere von Paraguay_ (1830), s. 10. [158] _Aborigines of Tasmania_ (2nd ed.), p. 38. [159] Johnston, _British Central Africa_ (1897), p. 403. [160] E. H. Man, “Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands,” _Journal of Anthropol. Institute_, vol. xii., p. 88. [161] See Raulin, _op. cit._, p. 94 ff. [162] Angas, _loc. cit._ [163] Ling Roth, _Natives of Sarawak_, etc., i., p. 81. [164] Burton, _Lake Regions of Central Africa_, ii., p. 331. [165] Waitz, _Naturvölker_, 6ter Theil, s. 102. [166] Mrs. Edgeworth David, _Funafuti_, p. 230. [167] Shooter, _The Kafirs of Natal_ (1857), p. 232. [168] Ling Roth, _Aborigines of Tasmania_ (2nd ed.), p. 29. [169] Wood, _Natural History of Man_, i., p. 261. [170] From an article, “West African Women,” contributed to the _Daily Telegraph_. [171] This is stated by Prof. Bain in his _English Composition and Rhetoric_, p. 237. I have been unable to verify the statement; but Mr. Ling Roth assures me that the statement is probably correct; and says that he remembers having read recently an account of the amusement of Chinese bystanders on such an occasion, one man putting out a boat—merely to save a hat! [172] Sarasin, _Forschungen auf Ceylon_, s. 537. [173] Sproat, _Scenes and Studies of Savage Life_ (1868), p. 51. [174] Wood, _op. cit._, i., p. 261, and Shooter, _op. cit._, p. 233. [175] Turnbull, _op. cit._, p. 372. [176] Wright, _History of Caricature and Grotesque_, p. 2. [177] Cruickshank, _loc. cit._ [178] Ellis, _op. cit._, i., p. 97.