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508. Sir Thomas Browne, ‘Vulgar Errours,’ ii. 3.

509. ‘Mémoires conc. l’Hist., &c., des Chinois,’vol.iv.p. 457. Compare the story of the magnetic (?) horseman in ‘Thousand and One N.’ vol. iii. p. 119, with the old Chinese mention of magnetic cars with a movable-armed pointing figure, A. v. Humboldt, ‘Asie Centrale,’ vol. i. p. xl.; Goguet, vol. iii. p. 284. (The loadstone mountain has its power from a turning brazen horseman on the top.)

510. Brasseur, ‘Popol Vuh,’ pp. 23-31. Compare this Central American myth of the ancient senseless mannikins who become monkeys, with a Pottowatomi legend in Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ part i. p. 320.

511. Dos Santos, ‘Ethiopia Oriental,’ Evora, 1609, part i. chap. ix.; Callaway, ‘Zulu Tales,’ vol. i. p. 177. See also Burton, ‘Footsteps in E. Afr.’ p. 274; Waitz, ‘Anthropologie,’ vol. ii. p. 178 (W. Afr.).

512. D’Orbigny, ‘L’Homme Américain,’ vol. ii. p. 102.

513. Weil, ‘Bibl. Leg. der Muselmänner,’p. 267; Lane, ‘Thousand and One N.’ vol. iii. p. 350; Burton, ‘El Medinah, &c.’ vol. ii. p. 343.

514. Ovid, ‘Metamm.’ xiv. 89-100; Welcker, ‘Griechische Götterlehre,’ vol. iii. p. 108.

515. Campbell in ‘Journ. As. Soc. Bengal,’ 1866, part ii. p. 132; Latham, ‘Descr. Eth.’ vol. ii. p. 456; Tod, ‘Annals of Rajasthan,’ vol. i. p. 114.

516. Bourien in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iii. p. 73; see ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. ii. p. 271.

517. Bastian, ‘Oestl. Asien,’ vol. iii. p. 435; ‘Mensch,’ vol. iii. pp. 347, 349, 387, Koeppen, vol. ii. p. 44; J. J. Schmidt, ‘Völker Mittel-Asiens,’ p. 210.

518. Froebel, ‘Central America,’ p. 220; see Bosman, ‘Guinea,’ in Pinkerton, vol. xvi. p. 401. For other traditions of human descent from apes, see Farrar, ‘Chapters on Language,’ p. 45.

519. Bosman, ‘Guinea,’ p. 440; Waitz, vol. ii. p. 178; Cauche, ‘Relation de Madagascar,’ p. 127; Dobrizhoffer, ‘Abipones,’ vol. i. p. 288; Bastian, ‘Mensch,’ vol. ii. p. 44; Pouchet, ‘Plurality of Human Race,’ p. 22.

520. Monboddo, ‘Origin and Progress of Lang.’ 2nd ed. vol. i. p. 277; Du Chaillu, ‘Equatorial Africa,’ p. 61; St. John, ‘Forests of Far East,’ vol. i. p. 17; vol. ii. p. 239.

521. Max Müller in Bunsen, ‘Phil. Univ. Hist.’ vol. i. p. 340; ‘Journ. As. Soc. Bengal,’ vol. xxiv. p. 207. See Marsden in ‘As. Res.’ vol. iv. p. 226; Fitch in Pinkerton, vol. ix. p. 415; Bastian, ‘Oestl. Asien,’ vol. i. p. 465; vol. ii. p. 201.