Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . nhabitantsunder the marriage laws, with rather amusing results in many in-stances. The majority of the population is nominally Catholic, butthe teachings of tlie church are only vaguely understood, and its prac-tices consist in the adoration of a few battered images of saints whoseparticular degree of sancitity is not even guessed at and who, whentheir owners are displeased with them, receive rather harsh treatment,as these people have usually no real idea of Christianity beyond afew distorted and superstitious beliefs. Aft
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . nhabitantsunder the marriage laws, with rather amusing results in many in-stances. The majority of the population is nominally Catholic, butthe teachings of tlie church are only vaguely understood, and its prac-tices consist in the adoration of a few battered images of saints whoseparticular degree of sancitity is not even guessed at and who, whentheir owners are displeased with them, receive rather harsh treatment,as these people have usually no real idea of Christianity beyond afew distorted and superstitious beliefs. After the widespread sur-veys of the French engineers, a sincere effort was made to re-Chris-tianize the inhabitants of the towns in Darien as well as elsewhere,for, until this time, nothing had been done toward their spiritualwelfare since the days of the early Jesuits. In the last thirty yearsspasmodic efforts have been made to reach the people with little result,and, excepting at Penonome, David, and Santiago, there are few Smithsonian Report, 1909.—Bell. Plate Fig. 1.—a Savannah.
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