Note 441 — Chapter XIX · ART AND WAR
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Cf. Ellis, Pol. Res. i. p. 286 (Tahiti); Spencer, Descr. Soc. Division I. Nr. 3, p. 15 (Fiji); Thomson, New Zealand, i. p. 128; Pritchard, Pol. Rem. p. 56; Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, ii. pp. 58, 59, 280, 356 (Australia, Fiji, Samoa).
How great a part of the boastful expressions of contempt for the enemy plays in the warfare of the American tribes can be seen from Heriot, Travels, p. 449 (Iroquois). Cf. also Eyre, Expeditions into Central Australia, ii. p. 224; Schweinfurth, Im Herzen von Afrika, ii. p. 25 (Niam Niam); Shooter, The Kafirs, pp. 197-199; Wood, Nat. Hist. of Man, i. p. 581 (Cammas).