[622] J. Morgan, _Life and Adventures of William Buckley_ (Hobart, 1852). The value of this book and especially of the ethnographic information contained in it, has been disputed by Bonwick. See J. Bonwick, _William Buckley, the Wild White Man_ (Melbourne, 1856), p. 7. I have not used Morgan's book as a source. The life-story of Morgan told therein is admittedly authentic. [623] Stokes, quoted by M. Lévy-Bruhl, _loc. cit._, p. 400. [624] Another instance where a white woman was received by a man as his daughter and accepted into the tribe and into all her rights and relationships, is told by Macgillivray, _loc. cit._, i., p. 303. She was shipwrecked, came into the power of the natives, and, of course, lived in a very miserable condition. Her only comfort was derived from the man who imagined that she was his reborn daughter. Henderson says that among the blacks of New South Wales the belief in white men being dead relatives who had returned was quite general. Such white men were accepted into the tribe and cordially treated. _Loc. cit._, p. 161. For other statements about white men being reincarnated dead relatives see Wilhelmi, _Trans. R.S.V._, v. p. 189. Br. Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, ii. p. 224. (Article by Chauncy) _ibid._, p. 307 (article by Howitt). R. H. Mathews, _Jour. and Proc. R.S.N.S.W._, xxxviii. (1905), p. 349. W. E. Roth, Bull. 5th, p. 16. R. H. Mathews, _Jour. and Proc. R.S.N.S.W._, xl. pp. 113, 114. Earl, _loc. cit._, p. 241. Howitt, _Nat. Tr._, pp. 445, 446. The latter says that the natives were "ready to do anything" for the white people, once they recognized in them their relatives. [625] Similar ideas have been enunciated by M. Lévy-Bruhl, _loc. cit._, pp. 388-402. Some of the Australian facts are quoted and interpreted there in an analogous way. M. Lévy-Bruhl naturally does not enter into as many particulars as has been necessary here, but his conclusion, "l'enfant-esprit qui se réincarne est déjà dans une relation determinée avec le père et la mère qui lui donnent naissance," is nearly identical with what we have endeavoured to prove here. Perhaps the word "relation" does not quite coincide with what we are especially concerned with in this place, _i. e._ individual kinship, and has a wider, more general meaning.