. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. has an orator who sup-plies his place. The religion of the Patagonian is a poly-theism, the natives believing that there aregreat numbers of deities, some good andsome evil. Each family is under the guar-dianship of one of the good deities, and all themembers of that family join him when theydie. Beside these gods there a
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. has an orator who sup-plies his place. The religion of the Patagonian is a poly-theism, the natives believing that there aregreat numbers of deities, some good andsome evil. Each family is under the guar-dianship of one of the good deities, and all themembers of that family join him when theydie. Beside these gods there are subordi-nate demons, good to their own friends, butbad toward all others, so that on the wholethe bad predominates in them. They arecalled by the name of Yalichu. Yet among some of the Patagonian tribesthere is even an approach to personal relig-ion. It has been thought that the Pata-gonians are totally destitute of such , however, is certainly not the case, aseven our limited knowledge of these people,their language, and their habits shows that,even though they may not possess any defi-nite system of religion, they are still im-pressed with the idea of some Being infi-nitely greater than themselves, who knowseverything that they do. Thus they believe. (2.) PATAGONIAN BURIAL GROUND. (See page 1189.) (1187) FUNERALS IK PATAGONIA. 1189 in an omniscient Being; and such a belief asthis, limited and imperfect though it maybe, is yet a step toward true religion. To this unknown Being they returnthanks when they have obtained a supply offood after long famine, so that we find themacknowledging that the great Being, whoknows all their deeds, watches over them,and is the Giver of all good things. When,for example, they have procured a seal afterhaving been half-starved for months, theyassemble round a fire, and the oldest manpresent cuts for each person a piece of theseal, uttering over each portion a sort ofprayer, and looking upward in devotion tothe unseen God, who ha
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