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Finally, to sum it all up, the testimony of the savages 
points toward the truth of the Bible in regard to all these 
subjects discussed, and especially to the fact that “God hath 
made of one blood all nations to dwell on the face of the 
earth,” and likewise that “‘ Eve was the mother of all living.” 
Tue CHAIRMAN (Surgeon-General C. A. Gorpon, C.B.).-—I am sure I 
but express the general feeling of all present when I say that we have 
listened with the greatest interest to this very valuable paper, and that we 
are deeply indebted as a Society to the author. While we regret his 
absence, we feel that every justice has been done to his paper by Mr. 
Cadman Jones, who has been so good as to read it. I am sure 
those who haye travelled much in different countries must be well 
aware how applicable are many of the remarks made with regard to the 
superstitions and beliefs entertained by the natives of America to those 
entertained in other parts of the world. I myself will not take up the time 
of the Society by doing more than allude to those that prevail throughout 
India, both on the Bengal side and on the westward side, and also those 
that prevail in certain parts of Africa. Nor need we go to India or 
Africa for many of those beliefs. I recollect, when a boy in the Highlands 
of Scotland, that many of the superstitions so vividly portrayed in this 
paper were most rigidly believed in the Highlands; and some of the 
remarks in the paper brought to my own mind very vividly the super- 
stitions and tales with which, as a boy in the Highlands, I was 
familiar. There are some gentlemen here, I believe, who have a special 
acquaintance with the subject brought before the Society, and I hope they 
will favour us with their remarks to-night. I have just received an 
intimation that the Marquis of Lorne has written, expressing his regret 
that he is unable to be present. I amsure, had he been here, some of the 
information he would have been able to give would have been most 
valuable and interesting. May I ask the Rev. Canon Hurst to be so good 
as to favour us with some remarks. 
Rey. Canon Horst, B.D.—I can only say with the Chairman that I 
have listened with the greatest pleasure to this paper. I can also remember, 
when I was a boy, some similar superstitions amongst persons that I 
knew in this country, and can testify that many of the things stated 
in this paper are true. I do not say any of them are not true, because 
it is impossible for any one man ever to become acquainted with all 
that is going on in every part of North and South America. This paper 
tries to deal with almost every tribe of Indians in the whole of America 
and they are so very different, and above all so different in their ideas, that 
it is utterly impossible for any one person to do more than collect inform- 
ation on these matters from various authors. I have seen a good deal of 
Indians in Canada, and heard much about them in the west and north- 
west of America; and, although I may not have known from personal 
observation many of the things stated in this paper, yet, at the same time, 
