CONTENTS. 



LANGUAGE. 



Jftige 



Thoughts on the language - - £5 



The power of imitation « - ibi4 



WEAPONS. 



Particular description of each - - ibid 



rUNEItAL RITES. 



Thoughts on death 27 



Young persons buried ... ibid 



Others burnt - - ibid 



Motherless children murdero.d and burnt - 28 



Godfathers - 29 



GOVERNMENT. 



Natives live in a state of nature - - ibid 



— in tribes or families - - ibid 



Governed principally by the Cam-mcr-rays - ibid 



RELIGION'. 



Total want of it - - - 30 



Knowledge of good and evil - - ibid 



DISEASES. 



Pain in the belly cured - - 31 



Small-pox - - - ~ - ibid 



Serious effect* of the small-pox - - ibid 



Itch .... 3i 



Venereal disease - ibid 



A cure from pain - - - ibid 



SUPERSTITION. 



Ignorance prone to superstition - 53 



Priestcraft of the Cam-mer-rays - - ibid 



Illness in consequence of superstition - ibid 



A native bled by Mr. White - - ibid 



Superstitious cure for superstition - 34 

 Superstition prevents the natives broiling fish at night . ibid 



, whistling under a rock ibid 



Belief in spirits - - ibid 



The approach of an apparition - - ibid 



Fear the darkness of night ■ - - ibid 



Important office gained by the absence of fear ibid 



Astronomical fears - . - ibid 



