[53] Col. Meadows Taylor, Appendix to Fergusson’s “Tree and Serpent-
worship,” pp. 236, 237.
[54] John Williams, “Missionary Enterprises,” p. 48.
[55] Rev. J. Williams, “Missionary Enterprises,” pp. 143-146 (edit. 1841.)
[56] “South Sea Bubbles,” by the Earl and the Doctor, pp. 114-117.
[57] R. F. Burton, “Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa.”
[58] Tennyson.
[59] Cooper, pp. 102, 104.
[60] Cooper, p. 105.
[61] Dishes.
[62] Empty.
[63] Puffed.
[64] Ash, or cinder.
[65] Saucy child.
[66] The unbounded good fortune of Polycrates, King of Samos, awakened the
fear of his friend, Amasis, King of Egypt, who wrote to warn him of the jealousy
of the gods:—
“This counsel of thy friend disdain not—
Invoke Adversity!
And what of all thy worldly gear,
Thy deepest heart esteems most dear,
Cast into yonder sea!”[67] Calcutta Review, LI. iii.
[68] Calcutta Review, LI., 118. In the Gaelic we find a similar story, called
“Moorochug and Meenachug.”
[69] We have Anglicised Mr. Dalyell’s version. See his “Darker Superstitions of
Scotland,” p. 22. (Edit. 1835.)