449 Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 250. 450 Gill, _Myths and Songs of the South Pacific_, p. 171; _id._, _Life in the Southern Isles_, p. 181 _sqq._ 451 L. J. B. Bérenger-Féraud, _Les Peuplades de la Sénégambie_ (Paris, 1879), p. 277. 452 W. H. Bentley, _Life on the Congo_ (London, 1887), p. 71. 453 Bastian, _Allerlei aus Volks-und Menschenkunde_ (Berlin, 1888), i. 119. _ 454 Relations des Jésuites_, 1637, p. 50. 455 Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_, p. 78 _sq._ 456 E. B. Cross, “On the Karens,” in _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, iv. 307. 457 J. B. McCullagh in _The Church Missionary Gleaner_, xiv. No. 164 (August 1887), p. 91. The same account is copied from the “North Star” (Sitka, Alaska, December 1888), in _Journal of American Folk-lore_, ii. 74 _sq._ Mr. McCullagh’s account (which is closely followed in the text) of the latter part of the custom is not quite clear. It would seem that failing to find the soul in the head-doctor’s box it occurs to them that he may have swallowed it, as the other doctors were at first supposed to have done. With a view of testing this hypothesis they hold him up by the heels to empty out the soul; and as the water with which his head is washed may possibly contain the missing soul, it is poured on the patient’s head to restore the soul to him. We have already seen that the recovered soul is often conveyed into the sick person’s head.