Chapter III (5)

Pietro della Valle, _Viaggi_ (Brighton, 1843), vol. i. pp. 602-3.

Duarte Barbosa (Magellan), _A Description of the Coasts of East
Africa and Malabar_ (1514); transl. by Hon. H. E. Stanley (Hakluyt
Society, 1866), p. 9.

Livingstone, _Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa_
(London, 1857), p. 64.

Barth, _Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa_
(London, 1857), vol. ii. p. 469; the tributary is the _Faro_; Yola
is the adjacent town.

Grant, _Walk across Africa_ (London, 1864), p. 304.

Condamine, M. de la, _Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans
l’intérieur de l’Amérique méridionale_ (Paris, 1745), p. 63 (at
Laguna).

P. 195. Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (London, 1862), vol. i. p. 169.

Bartram, _Travels through N. and S. Carolina, Georgia, &c._
(London, 1792), p. 225.

Kalm, _Travels into N. America_ (London, 1771), vol. ii. pp. 240-2.

Pliny, xvi. 40 _Germaniae praedones singulis arboribus cavatis
navigant, quarum quaedam et triginta homines ferunt._

Keller, _Lake Dwellings of Switzerland_ (transl. by J. E. Lee, 2nd
ed., 1878), p. 45, Pl. x. 8.

Sir W. Wilde, _Catalogue of the Antiquities of the Museum of the
Royal Irish Academy_ (Dublin, 1863), vol. i. pp. 202-4.

Ware, _The Antiquities and History of Ireland_ (London, 1705), p.
47.

Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (London, 1862), vol. i. pp. 153, 160.

P. 197. Cook, _Voyages_ (London, 1842), vol. i. p. 193.

P. 197. Barth, _Travels_ (London, 1857), vol. ii. p. 469.

Byron, _An Account of the Voyages undertaken ... for making
Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... by Commodore Byron,
&c._, by John Hawksworth (London, 1773), vol. i. p. 79.

P. 198. Duarte Barbosa, _A Description_, &c. (Hakluyt Society, 1866), pp. 14-15.

Denham and Clapperton, _Travels in Northern and Central Africa_
(London, 1826), p. 60 (Denham).

Barth, _Travels_ (London, 1857), vol. iii. p. 293.

Grant, _Walk across Africa_ (London, 1864), p. 196.

P. 199. Cook, _Voyages_ (1842), vol. i. p. 425 (Friendly Islands); pp. 95-7 (Otaheite).

La Perouse, _Voyage autour du monde_ (Paris, 1897), Atlas, No. 61.

Wilkes, _United States Exploring Expedition_ (Philadelphia, 1845),
vol. i. pp. 331-2 (Wytoohee); vol. ii. p. 157 (Samoa).

P. 200. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_ (London, 1858), vol. i. pp. 71-6.

Wilkes, l. c., vol. v. p. 52.

Wallace, _The Malay Archipelago_ (London, 1869), vol. ii. p. 159
(the long journey); p. 92 (nail-less boats); pp. 183-6 (the Ke
islanders). [The author’s text has been amended to conform with the
statements of Wallace.--ED.]

P. 201. Dampier, _A New Voyage round the World_ (London, 1729), vol. i. p. 429.

Turpin, _Histoire de Siam_ (Paris, 1771), vol. i. p. 36.

P. 202. Duarte Barbosa (Magellan), _A Description_, &c. (Hakluyt, 1866), pp. 147-8.

Marco Polo, _Travels_, transl. by Sir H. Yule (London, 1903), vol.
i. p. 108.

P. 203. Lobo, _A Voyage to Abyssinia_ (London, 1735), p. 24.

Isaiah xviii. 2; see Kitto’s _Pictorial Bible_, note on 2 Sam. xix.
18.

P. 204. Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (1862), vol. i. p. 169.

Sir Gardner Wilkinson, _The Manners and Customs of Ancient Egypt_,
3rd ed., 1878, vol. ii. p. 208, No. 403 (No. 399, 1st ed.).

Lucan, _Pharsalia_, iv. 136 _Conseritur bibula Memphitica cymba
papyro._

Plutarch, _de Iride et Osiride_, 18.

Pliny, vii. 56 _Nave primus in Graeciam ex Aegypto Danaus advenit:
ante ratibus navigabatur, inventis in Mari Rubro inter insulas a
rege Erythra_ (cf. ix. 10, and note on p. 190 above). _Reperiuntur,
qui Mysos et Troianos priores excogitasse, cum transirent adversus
Thracas. Etiam nunc in Britannico Oceano vitiles corio circumsutae
fiunt: in Nilo ex papyro, et scirpo, et arundine._ [The quotation,
as given in _J.A.I._, iv. 414, is inaccurate.--ED.]

Huxley, _Trans. Int. Congr. Preh. Arch._, Norwich, 1868 (London,
1869), p. 92; see also p. 147 above.

P. 205. Owen, _Journ. Anthrop. Inst._, vol. iv. p. 240.

Rosellini, _Monumenti dell’ Egitto e della Nubia_ (Pisa, 1834),
Mon. Civ., Pl. cxix. 1, cxvii. 3 (= Plate XV. 109-11 herewith).

P. 206. Prideaux; Markham, _A History of the Abyssinian Expedition, with a chapter ... by Lieut. W. F. Prideaux_ (London, 1869), p. 101.

Denon, _Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte_ (London, 1807),
vol. ii. p. 72.

Belzoni, _Narrative of Operations and Recent Discoveries ... in
Egypt and Nubia_ (London, 1820), p. 62; (holds nine persons).

Bruce, _Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile_ (London, 1790),
vol. v. p. 6.

P. 207. Pliny, xiii. 2 refers to wooden boats; v. 2 to wickerwork: _ibi Aethiopicae conveniunt naves: namque eas plicatiles humeris transferunt, quoties ad cataractas ventum est_.

Belzoni, _Narrative of Operations_ (London, 1820), pp. 380-1.

Pliny, v. 2 (above). Lucan, _Phars._ iv. 136 (above).

Herodotus, ii. 96. Wilkinson (Birch), 3rd ed., vol. ii. p. 307.

P. 208. Homer, _Odyssey_, v. 241-261. Smith, _Dict. Gr. and Rom. Antiq._, s. v. ‘Navis.’

Nydam boat. Engelhardt, _Denmark in the Early Iron Age_ (London,
1866), pp. 29-39, Pl. i-iv.

Tacitus, _Germania_, 44.

P. 210. Regnard, _Œuvres_ (Paris, 1854), vol. i, _Voyage de Laponie_, pp. 51, 100.

Outhier, _Journal d’un Voyage au Nord, en 1736 et 1737_ (Paris,
1744), pp. 60-1.

Bell, _Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to diverse parts of
Asia_ (Glasgow, 1763), vol. i. p. 168 ff.

Atkinson, _Oriental and Western Siberia_ (London, 1858), pp. 14-15.

P. 211. Belzoni, _Narrative of Operations, &c. ... in Egypt and Nubia_ (1820), p. 62.

P. 212. Wilkes, _U. S. Exploring Expedition_ (Philadelphia, 1845), vol. i. p. 127. [Pritchard.]

Kalm, _Travels into North America_ (London, 1771), vol. ii. p. 298.

Lahontan, _New Voyages to North America_ (London, 1735), vol. i.
pp. 26-9.

P. 213. Lane-Fox (Pitt-Rivers), _Report of the British Association_, Brighton, 1872 (London, 1873), p. 163.

Steinitz, _The Ship: its Origin and Progress_ (London, 1849), Pl.
xvi. 6.

P. 214. Layard, _Nineveh and its Remains_ (7th ed., London, 1848), vol. ii. pp. 381-2. Cf. Herodotus, i. 194.

Lempriere, _A Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier_ (London, 1793), p.
421.

P. 215. Herodotus, i. 194.

Kitto, _Pictorial Bible_, note on 2 Sam. xix. 18. Layard, l. c.

Hamilton (Alexander), _A New Account of the East Indies, 1688-1723_
(Edinb. 1727), vol. i. p. 88. They are described, even later, by
Sir R. K. Porter, _Travels in Georgia_, &c., 1817-20 (London,
1821-2), vol. ii. p. 260; and figured in Rawlinson, _Herodotus_
(1862), vol. i. p. 268, after Chesney, _Expedition for the Survey
of the Euphrates and Tigris_ (London, 1850), vol. ii.

Buchanan, _A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore,
Canara, and Malabar_ (London, 1807), vol. ii. pp. 121, 141, 151,
163.

P. 216. Cook, _Voyages_ (London, 1842), vol. ii. pp. 303-4.

Frobisher, _The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher_, ed. Collinson
(Hakluyt Society, 1867), p. 384.

Kerguelen, _Relation d’un voyage dans la mer du Nord_ (Paris,
1771), pp. 178-9.

Kalm, _Travels into North America_ (London, 1771), vol. ii. p. 241;
iii. p. 16.

Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (London, 1862), vol. i. p. 148.

P. 217. Caesar, _de Bello Civili_, i. 54.

Lucan, _Pharsalia_, iii. 131-5.

Bellenden, _The History and Chronicles of Scotland_, &c. 1536
(Edinburgh, 1821), vol. i. p. lix.

Sir W. Wilde, _Catalogue ... of the Royal Irish Academy_ (Dublin,
1863), vol. i. p. 204.

Ulloa, _A Voyage to South America, 1735_ (London, 1807), vol. i.
pp. 182-5.

P. 218. Bartolomew Ruiz. See Benzoni, _Historia del Mondo Nuovo_ (Venice, 1572), p. 165 (figure): reproduced in Benzoni (ed. Smyth: Hakluyt Soc., 1857), p. 243: cf. Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History of America_ (London, 1886), vol. ii. p. 508 (figure).

Condamine, M. de la, _Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans
l’intérieur de l’Amérique méridionale_ (Paris, 1745), p. 30 (on the
Maranon, not the Chinchipe R.). ‘Un exprès que j’avois dépêché de
Tupenda ... avoit franchi tous ces obstacles sur un petit radeau
fait avec deux ou trois pièces de bois, ce qui suffit à un Indien
nud et excellent nageur, comme ils le sont tous.’

Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (London, 1862), vol. i. p. 177.

P. 219. Bonwick, _Daily Life of the Tasmanians_ (London, 1870), p. 51.

Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_ (London, 1858), vol. i. p. 76.

P. 220. La Perouse, _Voyage autour du monde_ (Paris, 1797), vol. ii. p. 94.

Wilkes, _U. S. Exploring Expedition_ (Philadelphia, 1845), vol. i.
p. 331.

Cook, _Voyages_ (London, 1842), vol. i. p. 425.

Wilkes, l. c, vol. ii. p. 151 (Samoa); iii. pp. 365-6 (Fiji); v.
pp. 11-12 (Bowditch Island).

P. 221. Dampier, _A New Voyage round the World_ (London, 1729), vol. i. p. 215 (at Guam in the Ladrones; elsewhere he notes them ‘only at Mindanao’ in the Philippines, pp. 298-300).

P. 221. Pigafetta, _Voyage round the World_ (= Pinkerton (1811), vol. xi. p. 325).

Wilkes, _U.S. Explor. Exped._ (Philadelphia, 1845), vol. v. p. 52
(Kingsmill Is.).

Dampier, _A New Voyage, &c._ (1729), vol. i. p. 298 (Kingsmill Is.,
and Ladrones).

Baines, quoted in Wood, _Nat. Hist. of Man_ (London, 1868), vol.
ii. p. 8.

Cook, _Voyages_ (London, 1842), vol. i. p. 425.

Wilkes, l. c., vol. iii. p. 365 (Fiji); ii. p. 151 (Samoa).

P. 222. Wilkes, l. c., vol. iii. p. 365 (Fiji); v. p. 52 (Kingsmill).

P. 223. De Guignes, _Voyages à Peking, Manille, et l’Ile de France_ (Paris, 1808), vol. iii. p. 402.

Dampier, _A New Voyage round the World_ (London, 1729), pp. 298-300.

Symes, _An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava_ in 1795
(London, 1800), p. 223 (= Pinkerton (1811), vol. ix. p. 455).

P. 226. Wilson, _Prehistoric Man_ (London, 1862), vol. i. p. 175.

Lahontan, _New Voyage to North America_ (London, 1735), vol. i. p.
28.

Lloyd, _Journ. Anthrop. Inst._, vol. iv. p. 28.

P. 227. Wilkinson (Birch), _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (3rd ed., London, 1878), vol. ii. p. 219.

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Transcriber's Note

Illustrations have been moved next to the text which they illustrate.

The following apparent mistakes have been corrected:

p. xvi "parodoxical" changed to "paradoxical"

p. 35 "haves hown" changed to "have shown"

p. 46 "which I I am" changed to "which I am"

p. 51 "which they resemble." changed to "which they resemble.[19]"

p. 56 (note) "172-80" changed to "172-80."

p. 62 (note) "DC." changed to "D.C."

p. 76 "glaves" changed to "glaives"

Plate XVI. "AUSTRALIAN SHIELDS" changed to "AUSTRALIAN SHIELDS."

p. 158 "Pescheira" changed to "Peschiera"

p. 172 "the Caucasus:" changed to "the Caucasus;"

p. 186 (note) "The former" changed to "The latter"

p. 198 "mats’." changed to "mats.’"

p. 198 "persons’." changed to "persons.’"

p. 214 "Bagdad" changed to "Baghdad"

The following possible mistakes have been left as printed:

p. 31 use it.

p. 72 (1846), vol. ii. 1. p.

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

blowpipe and blow-pipe

Butan and Bootan

cocoa-nut and coco-nut

firearms and fire-arms

gipsies and Gipsies

pl. and Pl.

sheepskin and sheep-skin

shipbuilding and ship-building

wickerwork and wicker-work

Inconsistent punctuation in plates XV and XVI has been retained.