Note 141.1 — Chapter IV · Notes
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“Sitten und Gebräuche der Lengua-Indianer, nach Missionsberichten von G. Kurze,” Mitteilungen der geographischen Gesellschaft zu Jena, xxiii. (1905) pp. 17 sq., 19 sq., 21 sq. The Cross River natives of Southern Nigeria, like the Lengua Indians, cut off the diseased members of a corpse, in the belief that if they did not do so the person would suffer from the same disease at his next reincarnation. See Charles Partridge, Cross River Natives (London, 1905), pp. 238 sq.