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physical causes, and with, the structures and instincts 

 of irrational animals, will not suffice when we have 

 to deal with the results of the many-sided intelligence 

 of man, which, even in his most primitive and rudest 

 states, gives him a god-like supremacy over many 

 external conditions to which mere animals succumb, 

 and vastly complicates all his relations with nature. 



NOTE. The facts in this chapter, and elsewhere, relating to 

 the inhabitants of the Queen Charlotte Islands, are from un- 

 published notes of Dr. A. M. Dawson, F.G.S., who, while 

 engaged in the geological survey of these islands, in 1878, 

 made large collections of works of art, photographs of build- 

 ings, etc., and memoranda as to customs and superstitions. 



