Folklore as an Historical ScienceGomme, George Laurence
History
Folklore as an Historical Science
Gomme, George Laurence
Folklore
[335] Lieut.-Col. Sutherland, _Memoir respecting the Kaffirs,
Hottentots, and Bosjemans_, i. 67 (Cape Town, 1846).
[336] Burrows, _The Land of Pygmies_, 182.
[337] Mr. A. B. Lloyd's volume _In Dwarfland and Cannibal Country_, p.
96, is the most recent evidence.
[338] It is worth noting here that the Chinese traditions of the
pygmies are exceedingly suggestive and curious. See Moseley, _Notes by
a Naturalist_, 369.
[339] Skeat and Blagden, _Malay Peninsula_, ii. 443.
[340] _Journ. Indian Archipelago_, iv. 425-427; _cf._ _Journ. Anthrop.
Inst._, xvi. 228; Wallace, _Malay Archipelago_, 452.
[341] Clifford, _In Court and Kampong_, 171-181.
[342] Skeat and Blagden, _Pagan Races of Malay Peninsula_, i. 13.
[343] _Op. cit._, i. 53-4, 139, 169, 172, 341.
[344] _Op. cit._, i. 170.
[345] _Op. cit._, i. 243-248, 268.
[346] _Op. cit._, i. 494; ii. 56, 218.
[347] _Op. cit._, ii. 3. Compare _Journ. Indian Archipelago_, iv. 427,
"they are called after particular trees, that is, if a child is born
under or near a cocoanut or durian, or any particular tree in the
forest, it is named accordingly," and John Anderson, _Considerations
relative to Malayan Peninsula_, 1824, p. xli.
[348] _Op. cit._, ii. 4, 192, 194.
[349] _Op. cit._, ii. 174, 209.
[350] _Archæological Review_, i. 13, from an official report published
in a Government Blue Book.
[351] Brinton, _The American Race_; Curtin, _Creation Myths of
Primitive America_.
[352] Darwin, _Journal of Researches_, 228.
[353] _Anthropological Inst._, vii. 502-510.
[354] Quatrefages, _The Pygmies_, 24, 48, 69.
[355] There is ample evidence of this characteristic. Thus, of the
Australians of Port Lincoln district, it is said that "the habit of
constantly changing their place of rest is so great that they cannot
overcome it even if staying where all their wants can be abundantly
supplied."--_Trans. Roy. Soc., Victoria_, v. 178.
[356] _Fortnightly Review_, lxxviii. 455.
[357] _Secret of the Totem_, 125, 140.
[358] _British Association Report_, 1902, p. 745. _Cf._ Spencer and
Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, 160.
[359] Lang, _Secret of the Totem_, 140, quoting Grey, _Vocabulary of
the Dialects of South-west Australia_.
[360] Spencer and Gillen, _Tribes of Central Australia_, 119.
[361] The reader should consult Mason's _Women's Share in Primitive
Culture_, and Bucher's _Industrial Evolution_, for evidence on this
point.
[362] Livingstone, _South Africa_, 462.
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