70 Nathaniel Isaacs, _Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa_ (London, 1836), i. 295 _sq._, compare pp. 232, 290 _sq._ M25 Kings of Sofala put to death on account of bodily blemishes. _ 71 The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, i. 392. 72 J. dos Santos, “Eastern Ethiopia,” in G. McCall Theal’s _Records of Southeastern Africa_, vii. (1901) pp. 194 _sq._ A more highly-flavoured and full-bodied, though less slavishly accurate, translation of this passage is given in Pinkerton’s _Voyages and Travels_, xvi. 684, where the English translator has enriched the unadorned simplicity of the Portuguese historian’s style with “the scythe of time” and other flowers of rhetoric. 73 J. dos Santos, _op. cit._ p. 193. M26 Kings required to be unblemished. Courtiers required to imitate their sovereign. 74 Xenophon, _Hellenica_, iii. 3. 3; Plutarch, _Agesilaus_, 3; _id._, _Lysander_, 22; Pausanias, iii. 8. 9. 75 Herodotus, iii. 20; Aristotle, _Politics_, iv. 4. 4.; Athenaeus, xiii. 20, p. 566. According to Nicolaus Damascenus (_Fr._ 142, in _Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iii. p. 463), the handsomest and bravest man was only raised to the throne when the king had no heirs, the heirs being the sons of his sisters. But this limitation is not mentioned by the other authorities. 76 G. Nachtigal, _Saharâ und Sûdân_, iii. (Leipsic, 1889) p. 225; A. Bastian, _Die deutsche Expedition an der Loango-Küste_ (Jena, 1874-75), i. 220. 77 P. W. Joyce, _Social History of Ancient Ireland_ (London, 1903), i. 311. 78 Strabo, xvii. 2. 3, p. 823; Diodorus Siculus, iii. 7. 79 Mohammed Ebn-Omar El-Tounsy, _Voyage au Darfour_ (Paris, 1845), pp. 162 _sq._; _Travels of an Arab Merchant in Soudan_, abridged from the French by Bayle St. John (London, 1854), p. 78; _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie_ (Paris), IVme Série, iv. (1852) pp. 539 _sq._ 80 R. W. Felkin, “Notes on the Waganda Tribe of Central Africa,” in _Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh_, xiii. (1884-1886) p. 711; J. Roscoe, “Further Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Baganda,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii. (1902) p. 77 (as to sneezing). _ 81 Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, from the Journal of James Brooke, Esq., Rajah of Sarawak_, by Captain R. Mundy, i. 134. My friend the late Mr. Lorimer Fison, in a letter of August 26th, 1898, told me that the custom of falling down whenever a chief fell was observed also in Fiji, where it had a special name, _bale muri_, “fall-follow.” 82 Mgr. Bruguière, in _Annales de l’Association de la Propagation de la Foi_, v. (1831) pp. 174 _sq._ M27 Kings of Eyeo put to death. Voluntary death by fire of the old Prussian _Kirwaido_.