Handbook to the ethnographical collections . by the priests themselves : If a person had themisfortune to offend the sacred men, a soul trap would be suspended by night froma branch of [a tree] over-shadowing his dwelling. .. The priest would sitopposite Avatching. Ifan insect or small birdchanced to fly throughone of the loops, it wasasserted that the soul ofthe culprit, assuming thisform, had passed into thetrap. The spirit Vaeruapresiding over the spirit-world was now believedto hurry off the soul tothe shades and there feastu2)on it. The friends ofthe now soulless manthereupon proceeded to
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . by the priests themselves : If a person had themisfortune to offend the sacred men, a soul trap would be suspended by night froma branch of [a tree] over-shadowing his dwelling. .. The priest would sitopposite Avatching. Ifan insect or small birdchanced to fly throughone of the loops, it wasasserted that the soul ofthe culprit, assuming thisform, had passed into thetrap. The spirit Vaeruapresiding over the spirit-world was now believedto hurry off the soul tothe shades and there feastu2)on it. The friends ofthe now soulless manthereupon proceeded tomake intercession for thereturn of the soul, whichwas granted or refusedby the priests accordingto circumstances. If theyrefused, the culprit gavehimself up for lost, andgenerally pined awayfrom sheer flight. Incases of sickness the trapwas susjiended at the re-quest of friends ?whodesired to know whetherthe patient would recoveror not. If the priest re-ported that his spirit hadnot entered the snare,it was inferred that hewould Fig. 146.^—Head of wooden Islands. Marquesas IslandsThe islands composing this group, which lies off the Paumotuor Low Archipelago, were discovered at various times, and by menof different nationalities. The earliest visit of Europeans was POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 167 made by a Spaniard, Alvaro de Mendana, in command of anexpedition sent out by the Marques de Canete, Governor of Peru,in A. r>. 1595, Mendana named the southern 2:>art of the groupLas Marquesas out of respect to the Governor. One island wasdiscovered in A. d. 1774 by Lord Hood when a midshipman ofCaptain Cooks ship the liesolutwn. The more northerly part ofthe archipelago, which contains Nukuhiva the principal island,was discovered by Captain Ingraham of Boston, U. , in a. The French Captain Marchand followed in the same A. D. 1793 Captain Eoberts of the United States gave the northerngroup the name of the Washington Islands, by whic
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