[18.5] Raymond Crawfurd, _The King’s Evil_, pp. 144 _sqq._, 159 _sqq._ Chapter III Notes [21.1] _Old New Zealand_, by a Pakeha Maori (London, 1884), pp. 94-97, compare _id._ p. 83. [21.2] A. S. Thomson, _The Story of New Zealand_ (London, 1859), i. 103. Compare E. Dieffenbach, _Travels in New Zealand_ (London, 1843), ii. 105: “The breaking of the _tapu_, if the crime does not become known, is, they believe, punished by the _atua_, who inflicts disease upon the criminal; if discovered, it is punished by him whom it regards, and often becomes the cause of war.” [22.1] W. Brown, _New Zealand and its Aborigines_ (London, 1845). pp. 12 _sq._ [22.2] _Old New Zealand_, by a Pakeha Maori (London, 1884), p. 97. [23.1] Rev. R. Taylor, _Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, Second Edition (London, 1870), pp. 167, 171. [23.2] A. S. Thomson, _The Story of New Zealand_ (London, 1859), i. 105. [23.3] Rev. R. Taylor, _op. cit._ pp. 172 _sq._ [24.1] Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, _Iles Marquises ou Nouk-hiva_ (Paris, 1843), pp. 258-260. For details of the taboo system in the Marquesas Islands, see G. H. von Langsdorff, _Reise um die Welt_ (Francfort, 1812), i. 114-119; Le P. Matthias G * * * _Lettres sur les Isles Marquises_ (Paris, 1843), pp. 47 _sqq._ This last writer, who was a missionary to the Marquesas, observes that while taboo was both a political and a religious institution, he preferred to class it under the head of religion because it rested on the authority of the gods and formed the highest sanction of the whole religious system. [25.1] G. Turner, _Samoa_ (London, 1884), pp. 183-184. [26.1] G. Turner, _Samoa_, pp. 185-188. [26.2] W. Mariner, _An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands_, Second Edition (London, 1818), ii. 221. [26.3] R. H. Codrington, D.D., _The Melanesians_ (Oxford, 1891), pp. 215 _sq._ [27.1] R. Parkinson, _Im Bismarck-Archipel_ (Leipsic, 1887), p. 144; _id._, _Dreissig Jahre in der Südsee_ (Stuttgart, 1907), pp. 193 _sq._ [27.2] Thomas Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, Second Edition (London, 1860), i. 234. [27.3] G. A. Wilken, _Handleiding voor de vergelijkende Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië_ (Leyden, 1893), pp. 596-603; G. W. W. C. Baron van Hoëvell, _Ambon en meer bepaaldelijk de Oeliasers_ (Dordrecht, 1875), pp. 148-152. [27.4] A. R. Wallace, _The Malay Archipelago_, Sixth Edition (London, 1877), p. 196. [28.1] J. G. F. Riedel, _De sluik- en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_ (The Hague, 1886), pp. 61 _sq._ [28.2] J. G. F. Riedel, _op. cit._ pp. 114 _sq._ [28.3] Van Schmidt, “Aanteekeningen nopens de zeden, gewoonten en gebruiken, benevens de vooroordeelen en bijgeloovigheden der bevolking van de eilanden Saparoea, Haroekoe, Noessa Laut, en van een gedeelte van de zuidkust van Ceram, in vroegeren en lateren tijd,” _Tijdschrift voor Neêrlands Indie_, v. Tweede deel (Batavia, 1843), pp. 499-502. [29.1] J. G. F. Riedel, _op. cit._ pp. 167 _sq._