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ashes, and a small piece of galvanized iron 

 roofing on which some offering has evidently 

 been placed. From post to post near the top 

 hung a garland of threaded pendant cocoa 

 leaves ; at the opposite end to the ant hill, were 

 two rows of stones, rather irregularly placed, 

 with a space of about a foot between the rows, 

 the space being filled with ashes of a blue colour. 

 The blue shade caused probably by kerosene 

 oil having been used for fuel. Just outside the 

 Saami house a triangular stone, with some signs 

 cut on it, had been set on edge ; at the foot of 

 this there were also traces of ashes. Similar 

 triangular stones I have noticed on other 

 Estates, and wherever you see them, there are 

 always traces of burnt offerings having been 

 made. 



The other day, I accidentally came upon a 

 smaller, evidently less important, Saami-place ; 

 the space between the two huge buttresses 

 thrown out by a banian tree had been care- 

 fully swept, and at one end the usual square 

 stone and small earthen chatty had been 

 placed. Poor people ! it is very sad to see 

 their religious aspirations so mis-directed, one 

 can only hope that the true God, whose 

 children they also are, may listen to their 

 ignorant prayers and take pity on them. 



I returned home on Monday in time to see 

 and hear a magnificent thunder-storm. The 



