Assyrian: word for "salt," 76; words translated "covenant," 6 f. "Attic salt," synonym of life in conversation, 68. Babe: anoint with blood, 59; more life to a, 59. Bancroft, H. H.: cited, 57, 95. Band, symbol and pledge of union, 7. Barley-meal cakes employed in sacrifice, 94. Bartholow, Dr.: cited, 41. Battas, in Sumatra, form of oath of, 123. Bed'ween, conventions for covenants of, 30 f. Bey, Durzee, reference to, 24. Bheels, in India, reference to, 60. Bible: references to the rite in, 17; carried over threshold of new house, 76, 106; estimate of treachery in, 113. Bingham's "Antiquities:" cited, 89. Bird Bishop, Isabella: cited, 47, 100. Birth of child, salt at, 61. Blackwood's Magazine, reference to, 127. "Blood Covenant": reference to, 6, 7, 8, 9, 41, 45, 48, 53, 54, 59, 60, 62, 67, 79, 85, 86, 117, 118, 119, 120, 147. Blood: fresh, drunk by people of Masai, 37; salt representing, 37-50; drained from animals slaughtered by Jews, 39; transfusion of, 41; use of, as food, 41; red corpuscles of, 42 f.; saline ingredients in, 42 f.; anointing a new-born babe with, 59; Kaffir new chief washed in, 60; represented by wine, 117; atoned for by blood, 137; sprinkled by Moses, 148; shedding man's, 162 f. "Blood-licker" in Mecca, 48. "Blood revenge" in the East, 163. Blunt, on Book of Common Prayer: cited, 80. Bock, Carl: cited, 61. "Boiling water, ordeal of," 101. Booddhists in China, customs among, 92. Bracelet as symbol and pledge of union, 7. Brâhmanas, reference to, 90 f. Bread: salt as an accompaniment of, 14; and salt, 23-34; significance of, 79, 80; and flesh, 119. Bridal couple, sprinkled with salt, 128 f. Browning, Mrs., quotation from, 55. Buchanan, Dr., reference to, 41. Bunge, Professor: cited, 38, 39, 123. Burckhardt: cited, 24, 99 f., 100, 166. Burder: cited, 31, 110, 112. Burning Lamps, Feast of, 92 f. Burning of salt, 99 f. Burton: cited, 24; quotation from, 26. Bush's illustrations, reference to, 109. Buxtorf: cited, 87 f. Cadamosto, Aloisio, reference to, 69. Cannibals, bathing body of chief in salt after death, 61. Catacazy, Madame de, reference to, 125. Ceres, reference to, 23. Cattle, salt as meaning, 91. Characteristics of a covenant, 3-10. Chemist's use of term "salt," 39. China: blood substitute for salt in, 38; depriving a person of salt a mode of punishment in, 42; customs among Booddhists in, 92. Church, salt in dedication of a, 90. Cicero, reference to, 68. Circumcision as token of a covenant, 8. Clapperton: cited, 24. "College salting," 128. Collitz, Professor Hermann, reference to, 50, 74. "Compact," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5. "Conventions," Bed'ween, 30 f. Corpse, salt on a, in Scotland, 103. Cosmas, reference to, 69.