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think the spirit-bird is angry with them and has come to terrify them. 
There is nothing in the shape of sacrifice among them. The Indians believe 
in a future life, but the belief is very vague indeed; I have never been able 
to find that they had any idea of hell asa place of punishment, but they 
believe in the heaven which is above. It is only the chiefs who can be 
happy ; the others go to the same place, but they go to attend on the chief 
as his slaves. On the death of a chief it was-the custom of the Tongas 
Indians, south of Alaska, to kill one or two slaves of the chief in order 
that the slaves might accompany the chief. I knew one man who escaped 
from Alaska and came to British territory to avoid being killed. I think 
these are all the remarks I need make; the others which I have in my mind 
are similar to what Canon Hurst has already made. (Cheers.) 
Rev. F, A, ALLEN, M.A.—As a member of the “‘ Americanist” Society, 
which is very much interested in this question, I have for years tried to draw 
the attention of the British public to American archeology, but I could get 
few to join us except Sir John Lubbock and one or two specialists. We had 
a congress at Brussels, and the next is to be at Turin, I think next year; and 
I hope the English will show a little more interest in the subject than they 
have hitherto done. It may occur to some to say—Why should American 
archeology throw light on Eastern archeology ? I think the reason is—-as 
Sir J. W. Dawson said ina series of articles to The Leisure Hour—that 
America is a sort of microcosm of the whole history of man. At the 
present day it is the only continent where we see in miniature all that we 
know of the past. The stone period, the bronze period, the iron period are 
still going on there, and I think we can hardly see that anywhere else. Then, 
the American race, so long secluded, has developed more homogeneity, more 
individualism, and thus we are able to trace their legends to the fountain- 
head. This is why it is so important to study American archeology. I 
believe Sir J. W. Dawson considers it is the key to the proper understand- 
ing of the early history of the human race.* 
The CHainMAan.—I am very sorry that this very interesting meeting 
‘must be brought to a close. Before we separate I may be allowed to make 
a few remarks as to my own personal experience. I was very much 
interested, and I am sure we all were, to hear the remarks made with 
regard to the question of American archzology as bearing on that larger 
question of the distribution of our race. A remark of special interest to 
myself was the connexion between the native American Indians and the 
Mongolian inhabitants of Eastern Asia. By way of giving strength and 
* Mr, Allen wishes to add, with regard to the remark on p. 301—as to the 
Nass Indians around Fort Simpson “ carrying the images of their gods 
in a box,’—that he is glad to see the author is careful to allude to this 
statement as given, not on his own authority, but as reported in Mr. Dunn’s 
work; he (Mr. Allen) cannot regard it as a fact, for “it is utterly unlike 
these tribes to have idols at all, and the images in the box must have been 
either totems (tribal crests), or maces, or insignia of office.” 
