Sir Harry H. Johnston, _British Central Africa_ (London, 1897), p. 439; _id._, _The Uganda Protectorate_ (London, 1902), ii. 540. If we may trust Diodorus Siculus (i. 13. 3), this was the origin of fire alleged by the Egyptian priests. Among the Winamwanga and Wiwa tribes of East Africa, to the south of Lake Tanganyika, “when lightning sets fire to a tree, all the fires in a village are put out, and fireplaces freshly plastered, while the head men take the fire to the chief, who prays over it. It is then sent to all his villages, the people of the villages rewarding his messengers.” See Dr. J. A. Chisholm, “Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Winamwanga and Wiwa,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. 36 (July 1910), p. 363. The Parsees ascribe peculiar sanctity to fire which has been obtained from a tree struck by lightning. See D. J. Karaka, _History of the Modern Parsis_ (London, 1884), ii. 213. In Siam and Cambodia such fire is carefully preserved and used to light the funeral pyres of kings and others. See Pallegoix, _Description du royaume Thai ou Siam_, i. 248; J. Moura, _Le Royaume du Cambodge_, i. 360. Footnote 822: Oscar Peschel, _Völkerkunde_ 6th Ed. (Leipsic, 1885), p. 138. Mr. Man thinks it likely that the Andaman Islanders got their fire from one of the two volcanoes which exist in their island (_On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_, p. 82). The Creek Indians of North America have a tradition that some of their ancestors procured fire from a volcano. See A. S. Gatschet, _A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians_, ii. (St. Louis, 1888) p. 11 (43). Footnote 823: O. Peschel, _loc. cit._ As to the fires of Baku see further, _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, Second Edition, p. 159. Footnote 824: R. Taylor, _Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants_, 2nd Ed., p. 367; W. Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), ii. 194; A. Kuhn, _Herabkunft des Feuers_, 2nd Ed., pp. 92, 102. Lucretius thought that the first fire was procured either from lightning or from the mutual friction of trees in a high wind (_De rerum natura_, v. 1091-1101). The latter source was preferred by Vitruvius (_De architectura_, ii. 1. 1). Footnote 825: Sir Harry H. Johnston, _ll.cc._ Professor K. von den Steinen conjectures that savages, who already possessed fire, and were wont to use tinder to nurse a smouldering brand into a blaze, may have accidentally discovered the mode of kindling fire in an attempt to make tinder by rubbing two dry sticks or reeds against each other. See K. von den Steinen, _Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens_, pp. 219-228. Footnote 826: