JAPAN. .279 



iflands in 1777, they differ in fome of their cuftoms from the 

 former. They have multitudes of little houfehold gods, like the 

 Mongol 'Tartars, and they pay a worfliip to the owl. The Mon- 

 gols do the fame, for the reafon given in the zoological part of 

 the ArBic Zoology'^. This may direct us to the origin of thefe 

 iflanders. They bury their dead in the earth, and believe in a 

 future life? to be pafled in certain fubterraneous regions. 



* Vcl. i. p. 272. 



END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. 



