ative of the United States Exploring
Expedition_, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 83 _sq._; Th. Williams,
_Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 217 _sqq._]

[Footnote 706: Ch. Wilkes, _Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition_, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 49, 86, 351, 352; Th.
Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 221-223; B. Seeman, _Viti_, pp.
392-394.]

[Footnote 707: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 191 _sq._]

[Footnote 708: Th. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 223, 231.]

[Footnote 709: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 87; Th. Williams, _op. cit._
i. 226, 227; Basil Thomson, _The Fijians_, pp. 157 _sqq._]

[Footnote 710: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 87 _sq._; Th. Williams, _op.
cit._ i. 224 _sq._; Capt. J. E. Erskine, _op. cit._ p. 250; Lorimer
Fison, _Tales from Old Fiji_ (London, 1904), pp. 166 _sq._ As for the
treatment of castaways, see J. E. Erskine, _op. cit._ p. 249; Th.
Williams, _op. cit._ i. 210. The latter writer mentions a recent case in
which fourteen or sixteen shipwrecked persons were cooked and eaten.]

[Footnote 711: The Rev. Lorimer Fison, in a letter to me dated August
26th, 1898. I have already quoted the passage in _The Magic Art and the
Evolution of Kings_, i. 378.]

[Footnote 712: Th. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 225 _sq._]

[Footnote 713: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 231.]

[Footnote 714: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 97; Th. Williams, _op. cit._
i. 53.]

[Footnote 715: John Jackson's Narrative, in Capt. J. E. Erskine's
_Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific_ (London,
1853), pp. 464 _sq._, 472 _sq._ The genital members of the men over whom
the canoe was dragged were cut off and hung on a sacred tree
(_akau-tambu_), "which was already artificially prolific in fruit, both
of the masculine and feminine gender." The tree which bore such
remarkable fruit was commonly an ironweed tree standing in a conspicuous
situation. As to these sacrifices compare Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii.
97; Lorimer Fison, _Tales from Old Fiji_, pp. xvi. _sq._]

[Footnote 716: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i, 112.]

[Footnote 717: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 55.]

[Footnote 718: Lorimer Fison, _Tales from Old Fiji_, pp. xx., xxi.
_sq._; Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 247; B. Seeman, _Viti_ (Cambridge,
1862), p. 401.]

[Footnote 719: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 55 _sq._ The writer witnessed
what he calls the ceremony of consecration in the case of a young man of
the highest rank in So