272 S. L. Hinde and H. Hinde, _The Last of the Masai_ (London, 1901), pp. 101 _sq._; A. C. Hollis, _The Masai_ (Oxford, 1905), pp. 307 _sq._; Sir H. Johnston, _The Uganda Protectorate_ (London, 1904), ii. 832. 273 M. W. H. Beech, _The Suk_ (Oxford, 1911), p. 20. 274 A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi_ (Oxford, 1909), p. 90. 275 H. R. Tate, “The Native Law of the Southern Gikuyu of British East Africa,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. xxxv. April 1910, p. 243. 276 E. de Pruyssenaere, _Reisen und Forschungen im Gebiete des Weissen und Blauen Nil_ (Gotha, 1877), p. 27 (_Petermann’s Mittheilungen, Ergänzungsheft_, No. 50). Compare G. Schweinfurth, _The Heart of Africa_3 (London, 1878), i. 55. Among the Bahima of Ankole dead chiefs turn into serpents, but dead kings into lions. See J. Roscoe, “The Bahima, a Cow Tribe of Enkole in the Uganda Protectorate,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxvii. (1907), pp. 101 _sq._; Major J. A. Meldon, “Notes on the Bahima of Ankole,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. xxii. (January 1907), p. 151. Major Leonard holds that the pythons worshipped in Southern Nigeria are regarded as reincarnations of the dead; but this seems very doubtful. See A. G. Leonard, _The Lower Niger and its Tribes_ (London, 1906), pp. 327 _sqq._ Pythons are worshipped by the Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, but apparently not from a belief that the souls of the dead are lodged in them. See A. B. Ellis, _The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa_, pp. 54 _sqq._ 277 G. A. Shaw, “The Betsileo,” _The Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine, Reprint of the First Four Numbers_ (Antananarivo, 1885), p. 411; H. W. Little, _Madagascar, its History and People_ (London, 1884), pp. 86 _sq._; A. van Gennep, _Tabou et Totémisme à Madagascar_ (Paris, 1904), pp. 272 _sqq._ 278 “Religious Rites and Customs of the Iban or Dyaks of Sarawak,” by Leo Nyuak, translated from the Dyak by the Very Rev. Edm. Dunn, _Anthropos_, i. (1906) p. 182. As to the Sea Dyak reverence for snakes and their belief that spirits (_antus_) are incarnate in the reptiles, see further J. Perham, “Sea Dyak Religion,” _Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society_, No. 10 (December, 1882), pp. 222-224; H. Ling Roth, _The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo_ (London, 1896), i. 187 _sq._ But from this latter account it does not appear that the spirits (_antus_) which possess the snakes are supposed to be those of human ancestors. 279 George Brown, D.D., _Melanesians and Polynesians_ (London, 1910), pp. 238 _sq._ M65 Serpents which are viewed as ancestors come to life are treated with respect and often fed with milk.