§ Asiatic Tribes by Major Mercer, R. A, 247 
DOGS, 
SACRIFICES, 
LANGUAGES. 
BATHS. 
DUCK HUNTING. 
LENDING WIVES. 
If not, here is a singular coincidence. 
The same may be said of the Dog.— 
Is he indigenous, otherwise it is a 
singular coincidence that the Indians 
should have possessed Dogs previous 
to their being visited by Europeans. 
And Offerings to the Great Spirit & 
the Evil one ; a great similarity per- 
haps identity is found between the 
modes practised by the Tartars and 
Indians. 
Lesseps says that in Kamtschatka 
alone, in going from one village to 
another an Interpreter is necessary --~ 
This dissimilarity in language emi- 
nently prevails amongst the N. A. 
Indians, 
The Vapour Bath in Asia and Ame- 
rica is the same thing exactly. 
It is remarkable that the same mode 
of taking wild Fowl by going into 
the water with a calabash on the 
head, and seizing them by the legs 
should be practized in China & about 
the Isthmus of Darien. 
Altho’ I have not yet found this In- 
dian Custom, amongst any Siberian 
Tribe, yet it is saidto be practised 
by the Laplanders. 
MATCHE MANITOU, Of the Indians appears to coincide 
EMBLEMS, 
with the Goule or Spiritof the De« 
sert among the Asiatics. 
Of Tribes—West notices as similar 
to those of the Tribes of Israel —The 
Tartars are I believe divided into 
Vr bands 
