. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across SCENKKY ON THE AMOOR. a reverence for the tiger, eagle, bear, and cat. Tliey keep eagles in cages,and when they can catch a bear or tiger they use him for a religious cere-mony, which ends with the animal being slaughtered. His flesh is eatenunder the impression that it gives strength and courage to the eaters. LIFE OF THE GILYAKS. 299 They will not allow fire to be car-ried out of their houses, tliroughfear of evil consequences, and theyfo
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across SCENKKY ON THE AMOOR. a reverence for the tiger, eagle, bear, and cat. Tliey keep eagles in cages,and when they can catch a bear or tiger they use him for a religious cere-mony, which ends with the animal being slaughtered. His flesh is eatenunder the impression that it gives strength and courage to the eaters. LIFE OF THE GILYAKS. 299 They will not allow fire to be car-ried out of their houses, tliroughfear of evil consequences, and theyformerly had the custom of killingthose who came to visit them. Themore amiable he was, the greaterwas the chance of his being mur-dered. Fred asked how it could be ex-plained. Very easily, when you knowthe reason, was the reply. Theybelieve that the spirits of the deadremain where they left the body,and guard and protect the a man whom they liked wasabout to leave, they did not hesi-tate to kill him for the sake of re-taining his spirit among them. A.
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