[51.3] A. W. Nieuwenhuis, _Quer durch Borneo_, ii. 99; _id._, _In
Centraal Borneo_ (Leyden, 1900), ii. 278.
[51.4] A. H. F. J. Nusselein, “Beschrijving van het landschap Pasir,”
_Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_,
lviii. (1905) p. 538.
[51.5] A. Bastian, _Indonesien_, i. (Berlin, 1884) p. 144.
[52.1] G. A. Wilken, _Verspreide Geschriften_ (The Hague, 1912), ii.
335 (“Huwelijken tusschen bloedverwanten,” p. 26).
[52.2] B. F. Matthes, “Over de _âdá’s_ of gewoonten der Makassaren
en Boegineezen,” _Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie
van Wetenschappen_, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Derde Reeks, ii.
(Amsterdam, 1885) p. 182.
[52.3] _Digest_, xlviii. 9.9, “_Poena parricidii more majorum haec
instituta est, ut parricida virgis sanguineis verberatus deinde culleo
insuatur cum cane, gallo gallinaceo et vipera et simia: deinde in mare
profundum culleus jactatur._” Compare Valerius Maximus, i. 1. 13;
Professor J. E. B. Mayor’s note on Juvenal, viii. 214. If the view
suggested above is correct, the scourging of the criminal to the
effusion of blood (_virgis sanguineis verberatus_) must have been a
later addition to the original penalty, unless indeed some provision
were made for catching the blood before it fell on the ground.
[53.1] A. C. Kruijt, “Eenige aanteekeningen omtrent de Toboengkoe en
de Tomori,” _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche
Zendelinggenootschap_, xliv. (1900) p. 235.
[53.2] A. C. Kruijt, “Van Posso naar Mori,” _Mededeelingen van wege
het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap_, xliv. (1900) p. 162.
[53.3] N. Adriani en Alb. C. Kruijt, _De Bare’e-sprekende Toradja’s
van Midden-Celebes_, i. (Batavia, 1912) p. 187.
[54.1] Hissink, “Nota van toelichting, betreffende de zelbesturende
landschappen Paloe, Dolo, Sigi, en Beromaroe,” _Tijdschrift voor
Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, liv. (1912), p. 115.
[54.2] M. J. van Baarda, “Fabelen, Verhalen en Overleveringen der
Galelareezen,” _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van
Nederlandsch-Indië_, xlv. (1895) p. 514. In a letter to me of 14th
March 1909 Sir John Rhŷs compares a Welsh expression, “Rain through
sunshine, the devil going on his wife.” He adds: “I do not think I
ever heard it except when it was actually raining during sunshine. I
can now see that instead of _ar i wraig_ the original must have been
_ar i fam_ ‘on his mother.’ In fact I am not at all sure but that I
have heard it so.”
[54.3] F. S. A. de Clerq, _Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie
Ternate_ (Leyden, 1890), p. 132.
[55.1] O. Dapper, _Description de l’Afrique_ (Amsterdam, 1686), p.
326; R. E. Dennett, _At the Back of the Black Man’s Mind_ (London,
1906), pp. 53, 67-71.
[56.1] R. E. Dennett, _op. cit._ p. 52.
[56.2] A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi, their Language and Folk-lore_
(Oxford, 1909), p. 76.
[56.3] Rev. E. Casalis, _The Basutos_ (London, 1861), p. 252.
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