, ii. (Amsterdam, 1885) p. 142.]

[Footnote 770: W. M. Donselaar "Aanteekeningen over het eiland
Saleijer," _Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche
Zendelinggenootschap_, i. (1857) p. 291.]

[Footnote 771: See above, p. 426.]

[Footnote 772: Th. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, Second Edition
(London, 1860), i. 167.]

[Footnote 773: Ch. Wilkes, _Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition_, New Edition (New York, 1851), iii. 83; Basil Thomson, _The
Fijians_, p. 117.]

[Footnote 774: Basil Thomson, _op. cit._ p. 121.]

[Footnote 775: Lorimer Fison, _Tales from Old Fiji_, p. 163.]

[Footnote 776: Th. Williams, _Fiji and the Fijians_, i. 239.]

[Footnote 777: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 243 _sq._ Compare Berthold
Seeman, _Viti, an Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian of
Fijian Islands in the years 1860-1861_ (Cambridge, 1862), p. 399;
Lorimer Fison, _Tales from Old Fiji_, p. 163; Basil Thomson, _The
Fijians_, pp. 120 _sq._, 121 _sq._]

[Footnote 778: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i, 244 _sq._]

[Footnote 779: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 83.]

[Footnote 780: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 245 _sq._]

[Footnote 781: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 246 _sq._]

[Footnote 782: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 247.]

[Footnote 783: Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ iii. 85 _sq._]

[Footnote 784: Th. Williams, _op. cit._ i. 248.]

NOTE

MYTH OF THE CONTINUANCE OF DEATH[785]

The following story is told by the Balolo of the Upper Congo to explain
the continuance, if not the origin, of death in the world. One day,
while a man was working in the forest, a little man with two bundles,
one large and one small, went up to him and said, "Which of these
bundles will you have? The large one contains knives, looking-glasses,
cloth and so forth; and the small one contains immortal life." "I cannot
choose by myself," answered the man; "I must go and ask the other people
in the town." While he was gone to ask the others, some women arrived
and the choice was left to them. They tried the edges of the knives,
decked themselves in the cloth, admired themselves in the
looking-glasses, and, without more ado, chose the big bundle. The little
man, picking up the small bundle, vanished. So when the man came back
from the town, the little man and his bundles were gone. The women
exhibited and shared the things, but death continued on the earth. Hence
the people often say, "Oh, if those women had only chosen the small
bundle, we