Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . 338 NINETEEN YEAES IN POLYNESIA. 118. Phylacteries.—Some of the heathen priestsin the New Caledonia group, when they pray to thegods, tie on to their foreheads, or to the arm, abovethe elbow, a small bag, containing hair and finger-nail relics of their forefathers, reminding us of theJewish phylacteries. Such things are also worn bythe people as a charm in going to battle. One of i 2. these little bags, No. 2, contains two finger-nailsan inch long, some smaller pieces, a leaf, a feather,a bit
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . 338 NINETEEN YEAES IN POLYNESIA. 118. Phylacteries.—Some of the heathen priestsin the New Caledonia group, when they pray to thegods, tie on to their foreheads, or to the arm, abovethe elbow, a small bag, containing hair and finger-nail relics of their forefathers, reminding us of theJewish phylacteries. Such things are also worn bythe people as a charm in going to battle. One of i 2. these little bags, No. 2, contains two finger-nailsan inch long, some smaller pieces, a leaf, a feather,a bit of coloured cotton rag, and a tuft of hair. 119. Pillar.— Him that overcometh will I makea pillar in the temple of my God, Rev. iii. 12. Thetemple of the great god of the Samoan hades wassupposed to be supported by pillars of living men—men who on earth had been chiefs of the highestrank. 120. Pillows.— He took of the stones of thatplace, and put them for his pillows, Gen. xxviii. is just as a travelling party would do in thebush in Samoa. A piece of thick bamboo, or a piece ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. 339 of hard polished wood, is the usual pillow of thehealthy iu the South Seas (see p. 259). 121. Plagued.—The Lord plagued Pharaoh . .because of Sarai, Abrams wife, Geu. xii. 17. InSamoa the diseases, of great men particularly, weresupposed to be occasioned by some special cause;hence the anxiety and running about among thepriests to find out what it was. 122.
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