fices by making her the saviour of the people.[27]

[18] S. Ella, "Samoa," _Report of the Fourth Meeting of
the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science,
held at Hobart, Tasmania, in January 1892_, p. 634.

[19] T. H. Hood, _Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. "Fawn" in
the Western Pacific_ (Edinburgh, 1863), pp. 59 _sq._

[20] J. E. Erskine, _op. cit._ p. 110

[21] Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ ii. 125; J. E. Erskine,
_op. cit._ p. 110

[22] Ch. Wilkes, _op. cit._ ii. 148; Violette, " Notes
d'un Missionnaire sur l'archipel de Samoa," _Les Missions
Catholiques_, iii. (1870) p. 156; J. L. Brenchley, _op. cit._ p.
77; S. Ella, _op. cit._ pp. 628 _sq._; G. Brown, _op. cit._ pp.
43, 410.

[23] G. Brown, _op. cit._ p. 410.

[24] For some evidence of the practice see John
Turnbull, _Voyage round the World_ (London, 1813), pp. 363
_sq._; C. S. Stewart, _Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich
Islands_ (London, 1828), pp. 251 _sqq._; P. Dillon, _Voyage in
the South Seas_ (London, 1829), ii. 134; William Ellis,
_Polynesian Researches_, Second Edition (London, 1832-1836), i.
248 _sqq._; J. Williams, _Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in
the South Sea Islands_ (London, 1838), pp. 479-486. According to
Stewart, in those parts of Hawaii to which the influence of the
missionaries had not penetrated, two-thirds of the infants born
were murdered by their parents within the age of two years. In
Tahiti three women, questioned by Mr. Williams, acknowledged
that they had killed twenty-one of their children between them.
Another, at the point of death, confessed to him, in an anguish
of remorse, that she had destroyed sixteen of her children.

[25] G. Turner, _Samoa_, p. 79. Compare J. Williams,
_op. cit._ p. 479; S. Ella, _op. cit._ p. 621; G. Brown,
_Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 47.

[26] G. Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 219.

[27] G. Turner, _Samoa_, pp. 201 _sq._ Compare G.
Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, pp. 230 _sq._; J.
Williams, _Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea
Islands_, p. 471; J. B. Stair, _Old Samoa_, p. 210.

The Samoans, when they became known to Europe in the nineteenth century,
did not habitually indulge in cannibalism; indeed, according to John
Williams, one of the earliest missionaries to the islands, they spoke of
the pr