Note 1358 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

Hazlewood, in J. E. Erskine’s Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific (London, 1853), pp. 246 sq. Compare Ch. Wilkes, Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 87; Th. Williams, Fiji and the Fijians,² i. 219 sq.; R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians, p. 122. “A great chief [in Fiji] really believed himself to be a god—i.e. a reincarnation of an ancestor who had grown into a god” (Rev. Lorimer Fison, in a letter to the author, dated August 26, 1898).