250 P. N. Wilken, “Bijdragen tot de kennis van de zeden en gewoonten der Alfoeren in de Minahassa,” in _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap_, vii. (1863) p. 127. 251 N. P. Wilken en J. A. Schwarz, “Allerlei over het land en volk van Bolaang Mongondou,” in _Mededeel. v. w. h. Nederl. Zendelinggen_. xi. 369 _sq._ 252 H. Harkness, _Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills_, p. 56 _sq._ 253 Gover, _Folk-songs of Southern India_, p. 105 _sqq._; _Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 302 _sqq._ 254 Gover, “The Pongol Festival in Southern India,” _Journ. R. Asiatic Society_, N. S. v. (1871) p. 91 _sqq._ 255 Biddulph, _Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh_, p. 103. 256 Crowther and Taylor, _The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger_, p. 287 _sq._ Mr. Taylor’s information is repeated in _West African Countries and Peoples_, by J. Africanus B. Horton (London, 1868), p. 180 _sq._ 257 Speckmann, _Die Hermannsburger Mission in Afrika_, p. 150 _sq._ On the Zulu feast of first-fruits, see also N. Isaacs, _Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa_, ii. 291 _sq._; Arbousset et Daumas, _Voyage d’exploration_, etc. p. 308 _sq._; Callaway, _Religious System of the Amazulu_, p. 389 _note_; _South African Folk-lore Journal_, i. 135 _sqq._; Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas_, p. 143; Lewis Grout, _Zululand_, p. 160 _sqq._ From Mr. Grout’s description it appears that a bull is killed and its gall drunk by the king and people. In killing it the men must use nothing but their naked hands. The flesh of the bull is given to the boys to eat what they like and burn the rest; the men may not taste it. As a final ceremony the king breaks a green calabash in presence of the people, “thereby signifying that he opens the new year, and grants the people leave to eat of the fruits of the season.” If a man eats the new fruits before the festival, he will die or is actually put to death.