Praising his deceased son, Tui Thakau, a Fijian Chief, concluded “by speaking of his daring spirit and consummate cruelty, as he could kill his own wives if they offended him, and eat them afterwards.”—_Western Pacific._ J. E. Erskine, p. 248. “Shedding of blood is to him no crime, but a glory . . . . to be somehow an acknowledged murderer is the object of the Fijian’s restless ambition.”—_Fiji and the Fijians._ Rev. T. Williams, i., p. 112. “It is a melancholy fact that when they [the Zulu boys] have arrived at a very early age, should their mothers attempt to chastise them, such is the law, that these lads are at the moment allowed to kill their mothers.”—_Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa._ G. Thompson, ii., p. 418. “Murther, adultery, thievery, and all other such like crimes, are here [Gold Coast] accounted no sins.”—_Description of the Coast of Guinea._ W. Bosman, p. 130. “The accusing conscience is unknown to him [the East African]. His only fear after committing a treacherous murder is that of being haunted by the angry ghost of the dead.”—_Lake Regions of Central Africa._ R. F. Burton, ii., p. 336. “I never could make them [East Africans] understand the existence of good principle.”—_The Albert N’Yanza._ S. W. Baker, i., pp. 241. “The Damaras kill useless and worn-out people; even sons smother their sick fathers.”—_Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa._ F. Galton, p. 112. The Damaras “seem to have no perceptible notion of right and wrong.”—_Ibid._ p. 72.