Wanderings in a Wild Country, or Three Years among the Cannibals of New Britain (London, 1883), p. 55.

For shell money in the Caroline Islands cf. Kubary’s Ethnographische Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels (Leipzig, 1889); in the Pelew Islands cf. Karl Semper, Die Pelau Inseln (Leipzig, 1873), p. 60; and for shell money in general cf. R. Stearn’s Ethno-conchology (Washington, 1889).

Jevons, Money, 25.

Terrien de la Couperie, Coins and Medals, p. 193.

Terrien de la Couperie, Coins and Medals, p. 199.

Yule’s Translation, Vol. II. p. 70.

Gill, River of Golden Sand, II. p. 77.

Yule’s Translation, Vol. II. p. 45.

So the Irish sed, the most general name for chattel, originally meant simply an ox.

Cochin-Chine Française. Excursions et Reconnaissances, XIII. (1877), p. 296-8.