[79] Similar conditions may be observed among the islanders near India. Here the Malays are vikings. “Colonization is an important factor, as conquest and settlement oversea ... reminding one of the great rôle played in ancient Hellas by the roving tribes.... Every strip of coast line shows foreign elements, who enter uncalled for and in most instances spreading damage among the natives. The right of conquest was granted by the rulers of Tornate to noble dynasts, who later on became semi-sovereign viceroys on the islands of Buru, Serang, etc.” [80] Mommsen, l. c. I, p. 132. [81] Mommsen, l. c. I, p. 134. [82] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 160. [83] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 558. [84] Buhl, l. c., p. 48. [85] Buhl, l. c., pp. 78-79. [86] Mommsen, l. c. II, p. 406. [87] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 191; cf. also pp. 207-8. [88] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 363. [89] Mommsen, l. c., p. 46. [90] Both cited by Kulischer, l. c., p. 319, from: Buechsenschuetz, _Besitz und Erwerb im grieschischen Altertum_; and Goldschmidt, _History of the Law of Commerce_. [91] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 263. [92] F. Oppenheimer’s _Grossgrundeigentum und soziale Frage_. Book Two, Chapter I. Berlin, 1898. [93] Nomadism is exceptionally characterized by the facility with which, from patriarchal conditions, despotic functions are developed with most far-reaching powers. Ratzel, l. c. Vol. II, pp. 388-9. [94] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 408. [95] Cunow, l. c. pp. 66-7. Similarly among the inhabitants of the Malay Islands numerous examples are found in Radak (Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 267). [96] Buhl, l. c., p. 17. [97] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 66. [98] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 118. [99] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 167. [100] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 218. [101] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 125. [102] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 124. [103] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 118. [104] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 125. [105] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 346. [106] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 245. [107] Ratzel, l. c. I. pp. 267-8. [108] Mommsen, l. c. III, pp. 234-5. [109] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 167. [110] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 229. [111] Ratzel, l. c. I, p. 128. [112] Weber’s _Weltgeschichte_, III, p. 163. [113] Thurnwald, l. c., pp. 702-3. [114] Thurnwald, l. c., p. 712; cf. Schneider, _Kultur und Denken der alten ÆEgypter_, Leipzig, 1907, p. 38. [115] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 599. [116] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 362. [117] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 344. [118] Meitzen, l. c. II, p. 633. [119] Inama-Sternegg, l. c. I, pp. 140-1. [120] Mommsen, l. c. V, p. 84. [121] Cf. the detailed exposition of this in F. Oppenheimer’s _Grossgrundeigentum und die soziale Frage_, Book II, Chap. 3. [122] Mommsen, l. c. III, pp. 234-5. [123] Thurnwald, l. c., p. 771. [124] Meitzen, l. c. I, pp. 362f. [125] Inama-Sternegg, l. c. I, pp. 373, 386. [126] Cf. F. Oppenheimer’s _Grossgrundeigentum_, p. 272. [127] Thurnwald, l. c., p. 706. [128] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 503. [129] Ratzel, l. c. II, p. 518.