[Footnote 7: Burchell, _Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa_, ii. 554.] [Footnote 8: Dalton, _Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal_, p. 256.] [Footnote 9: Fraser, _Journal of a Tour through the Him[=a]l[=a] Mountains_, p. 267.] [Footnote 10: Temple, quoted by Spencer, _Principles of Ethics_, i. 343. For other instances of the indifference of savages to human life, see Egede, _Description of Greenland_, p. 123; Cranz, _History of Greenland_, i. 177; Holm, 'Ethnologisk Skizze af Angmagsalikerne,' in _Meddeleser om Grönland_, x. 87, 179 _sq._; Coxe, _Russian Discoveries between Asia and America_, p. 257 (Aleuts of Unalaska); Krasheninnikoff, _History of Kamtschatka_, p. 204; Steller, _Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka_, p. 294; Boyle, _Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo_, p. 116 (Malays); Powell, _Wanderings in a Wild Country_, p. 262 (aborigines of New Britain); Scaramucci and Giglioli, 'Notizie sui Danakil,' in _Archivio per antropologia e la etnologia_, xiv. 26; Wilson and Felkin, _Uganda_, ii. 310 (Gowane); Schweinfurth, _Heart of Africa_, i. 286 (Bongo); Arnot, _Garenganze_, p. 71 (Barotse); Tuckey, _Expedition to Explore the River Zaire_, p. 383 (Congo natives); Waul, _Five Years with the Congo Cannibals_, p. 105 (Bolobo).] On the other hand, there are uncivilised peoples among whom homicide or murder is said to be hardly known. Among the Omahas, "before liquor was introduced there were no murders, even when men quarrelled."[11] Captain Lyon could learn of no instances of manslaughter having ever occurred among the Eskimo of Igloolik.[12] In Tutuila, of the Samoa group, according to Brenchley, there had been but one case of assassination in the course of twenty years.[13] The Veddahs of Ceylon know of manslaughter only as a punishment.[14] {330} The Bedouin of the Euphrates, says Mr. Blunt, "is essentially humane, and never takes life needlessly. If he has killed a man in war he rather conceals the fact than proclaims it aloud, while murder or even homicide is almost unknown among the tribes."[15] Among the Bakwiri, in Cameroon, Zoller never heard of any person having killed a member of his own community.[16] Murders, says Caillié, "are rare among the Bambaras, and never committed by the Mandingoes."[17] Among the Wanika "wilful cold-blooded murders are almost unknown."[18] Among the Basutos perfect safety is enjoyed "on roads where the traveller might have been robbed a hundred times over without the least hope of aid, and in houses where the doors and windows have neither bolts nor bars," and cases of murder are very rare.[19] [Footnote 11: Dorsey, 'Omaha Sociology,' in _Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn._ iii. 369.] [Footnote 12: Lyon, _Private Journal_, p. 350.] [Footnote 13: Brenchley, _Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. "Curaçoa" among the South Sea Islands_, p. 58.]