[208] Schoolcraft’s _Indian Tribes_, iv. 52.
[209] _The Basutos_, 223.
[210] Potter’s _Grecian Antiquities_, ii. 69.
[211] Turner’s _Samoa_, 298.
[212] Ellis’s _Polynesian Researches_, i. 275.
[213] Hutton’s _Voyage to Africa_, 1821, 337.
[214] Colenso and Durnford’s _Zulu War_, 364, 379.
[215] Petitot’s _Mémoires_, xv. 329.
[216] The evidence is collected in _Cetschwayo’s Dutchman_, 99-103.
[217] Henty’s _March to Coomassie_, 443. Compare Reade’s _Ashantee
Campaign_, 241-2.
[218] Florus, ii. 19; iii. 4; Velleius Paterculus, ii. 1.
[219] Florus, ii. 20.
[220] _Ibid._ iii. 7.
[221] Florus, iii. 4; Cæsar, _De Bello Gallico_, ix. 44.
[222] Morley’s _Cobden_, ii. 355.
[223] Sir A. Helps’ _Las Casas_, 29.
[224] T. Morton’s _New England Canaan_, 1637, iii.
[225] Belknap’s _New Hampshire_, i. 262.
[226] Penhallow’s _Indian Wars_, 1826, republished 1859, 31-3.
[227] _Ibid._ 105, 6.
[228] _Ibid._ 103. For further details of this debased military
practice, see Adair’s _History of American Indians_, 245; Kercheval’s
_History of the Valley of Virginia_, 263; Drake’s _Biography and
History of the Indians_, 210, 373; Sullivan’s _History of Maine_, 251.
[229] Kercheval’s _Virginia_, 113.
[230] Eschwege’s _Brazil_, i. 186; Tschudi’s _Reisen durch Südamerika_,
i. 262.
[231] Parkman’s _Expedition against Ohio Indians_, 1764, 117.
[232] Argensola, _Les Isles Molucques_, i. 60.
[233] Drake’s _Biography and History of the Indians_, 489, 490.
[234] R. C. Burton’s _City of the Saints_, 576; Eyre’s _Central
Australia_, i. 175-9.
[235] Borwick’s _Last of the Tasmanians_, 58.
[236] Tschudi’s _Reisen_, ii. 262.
[237] Maccoy’s _Baptist Indian Missions_, 441; Froebel’s _Seven Years
in Central America_, 272; Wallace’s _Travels on the Amazon_, 326.
[238] Bancroft’s _United States_, ii. 383-5; and compare Clarkson’s
_Life of Penn_, chaps. 45 and 46.
[239] Brooke’s _Ten Years in Sarawak_, i. 74.
[240] Captain Hamilton’s _East Indies_, in Pinkerton, viii. 514.
[241] W. H. Russell’s _My Diary in India_, 150.
[242] _Annals of the Propagation of the Faith_, viii. 280-6.
[243] _Caffres and Caffre Missions_, 210.
[244] _Memorials of Henrietta Robertson_, 259, 308, 353.
[245] _Ibid._ 353.
[246] Colenso and Durnford’s _Zulu War_, 215.
[247] Holden’s _History of Natal_, 210, 211.
[248] Moister’s _Africa, Past and Present_, 310, 311.
[249] Tams’s _Visit to Portuguese Possessions_, i. 181, ii. 28, 179.
[250] Robertson’s _America_; Works, vi. 177, 205.
[251] Thomson’s _Great Missionaries_, 30; Halkett’s _Indians of North
America_, 247, 249, 256.
[252] Le Blant, _Inscriptions Chrétiennes_, i. 86.
[253] Bingham, _Christian Antiquities_, i. 486.
[254] Cæsar, _De Bello Gallico_, vi. 14. ‘Druides a bello abesse
consuerunt ... militiæ vacationem habent;’ and Origen, _In Celsum_,
viii. 73, for the Romans.
[255] Vaughan’s _Life of Wycliffe_, ii. 212-3.
[256] Turner’s _England_, iv. 458, from Duchesne, _Gesta Stephani_.
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