[62.3] “Corc means croppy or cropped: in this instance the name refers
to the bearer’s ears, and the verb used as to the action of his
brother maiming him is _ro-chorc_.”
[63.1] (Sir) John Rhŷs, _Celtic Heathendom_ (London and Edinburgh,
1888), pp. 308 _sq._, referring to the _Book of the Dun_, 54_a_.
[64.1] _Laws of Manu_, viii. 371 _sq._, translated by G. Bühler, pp.
318 _sq._ (_Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xxv.). Compare _Gautama_,
xxiii. 14 _sq._, translated by G. Bühler, p. 285 (_Sacred Books of
the East_, vol. ii.).
[64.2] _Code of Hammurabi_, §§ 129, 157, C. H. W. Johns, _Babylonian
and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters_ (Edinburgh, 1904), pp. 54,
56; Robert W. Rogers, _Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament_
(Oxford, preface dated 1911), pp. 427, 434.
[64.3] Deuteronomy xxii. 22.
[64.4] Deuteronomy xxii. 20 _sq._
[64.5] Leviticus xxi. 9.
[64.6] Leviticus xx. 14.
[65.1] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), pp. 261 _sq._
[65.2] Rev. J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ p. 262. As to the totemic clans, see
_id._ pp. 133 _sqq._ One clan (the Lung-fish clan) was excepted from
the rule.
[65.3] Sir Harry Johnston, _The Uganda Protectorate_ (London, 1904),
ii. 719.
[66.1] Sir Harry Johnston, _op. cit._ ii. 746 _sq._
[66.2] A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi_ (Oxford, 1909), p. 76.
[66.3] Werner Munzinger, _Ostafrikanische Studien_ (Schaffhausen,
1864), p. 243.
[66.4] W. Munzinger, _op. cit._ p. 322. However, the child of an
unmarried slave woman is brought up; the father pays for its nurture.
[66.5] H. S. Stannus, “Notes on some Tribes of British Central
Africa,” _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_, xl. (1910)
p. 290.
[67.1] Cullen Gouldsbury and Hubert Sheane, _The Great Plateau of
Northern Rhodesia_ (London, 1911), p. 57.
[67.2] Peter Kolben, _The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope_,
Second Edition (London, 1738), i. 157. For more examples of the death
penalty inflicted for breaches of sexual morality in Africa, see A. H.
Post, _Afrikanische Jurisprudenz_ (Olbenburg and Leipsic, 1887), ii.
69 _sqq._
[68.1] G. J. van Dongen, “De Koeboes,” _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land-
en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_, lxiii. (1910) p. 293.
[68.2] R. van Eck, “Schetsen van het eiland Bali,” _Tijdschrift voor
Nederlandsch Indië_, Nieuwe Serie, viii. (1879) pp. 370 _sq._; Julius
Jacobs, _Eenigen Tijd onder de Baliërs_ (Batavia, 1883), p. 126.
[68.3] See above, pp. 52 _sq._
[68.4] Hoorweg, “Nota bevattende eenige gegevens betreffende het
landschap Mamoedjoe,” _Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en
Volkenkunde_, lxiii. (1911) p. 95.
[68.5] G. A. Wilken, _Verspreide Geschriften_ (The Hague, 1912), ii.
481.
[69.1] J. S. G. Gramberg, “Schets der Kesam, Semendo, Makakauw en
Blalauw,” _Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde_, xv.
(1866) pp. 456-458. Compare G. G. Batten, _Glimpses of the Eastern
Archipelago_ (Singapore, 1894), pp. 105 _sq._
[69.2] G. A. Wilken, _Verspreide Geschriften_, ii. 481 _sq._
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