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and was legal tender from 1667 onwards, coined money 

 being established in 1715. In the Leeward Islands, 

 books and accounts were kept in terms of sugar, 

 and even as late as 1740 it was officially stated that 

 ' the value which is put on sugar, rum, cotton, and other 

 commodities, the growth of the Leeward Islands, is 

 called currency there.' The variety of the ' other com- 

 modities ' was considerable from time to time ; tobacco, 

 cotton-wool, indigo, ginger, molasses, and so on ; and 

 their rating was fixed by the Government, just as we 

 saw the Indian and Burman officials rating live stock 

 and so on for the wild Lushais and Chins. This went 

 on more or less till 1784. In British Honduras mahog- 

 any in the form of logwood lasted till 1785, one of the 

 most unwieldy currencies yet invented, except perhaps 

 the 'millstone' money of the Caroline Islands in the 

 South Pacific. In the Bermudas, which was the first of 

 the colonies to start a coined currency, tobacco was the 

 currency until 1658. All this is exactly paralleled by 

 the elk teeth which passed for twenty-five cents among 

 the Shoshone and Bannock Indians in the United States, 

 and the unus or plaited fibre armlet of Borneo, which 

 passed as three cents of the trade dollar per bundle of 

 fifteen armlets. 



It is the collation of facts such as these that proves 

 the existence of the anthropological law of the constancy 

 of human reasoning, which I have so often already 

 pointed out. In similar conditions the mind of civilized 

 and uncivilized man works in much the same directions 

 and produces much the same results. It is a law that 

 must in all anthropological investigation be ever remem- 

 bered. The mind of man, like the other parts of him, 

 is always the same mind, though variously developed 

 in individuals and groups of individuals. Before pro- 



