The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 THE CAEOLINES. 285 purchase hatchets, saws, and knives from the traders, the people have scarcely yet outlived the stone age, most of their implements still consisting of shells, fish- bones and the like. In the eastern islands the American missionaries, who arrived in 1849, have Fig. 125.—Yap. Scale 1 : 350,000. oP G reenwicr I38°20' Submarine Reefs. 6 Miles. converted some thousands of the natives ; but hundreds have returned to their ancestral practices, while in the western groups the
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 THE CAEOLINES. 285 purchase hatchets, saws, and knives from the traders, the people have scarcely yet outlived the stone age, most of their implements still consisting of shells, fish- bones and the like. In the eastern islands the American missionaries, who arrived in 1849, have Fig. 125.—Yap. Scale 1 : 350,000. oP G reenwicr I38°20' Submarine Reefs. 6 Miles. converted some thousands of the natives ; but hundreds have returned to their ancestral practices, while in the western groups the prevailing religion is still animism associated with the worship of trees, of mountains, of everything that lives and moves, the fear of the spirits of air, and homage paid to their forefathers.
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