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of Man, there were many religious customs 

 of which those who practised them did not 

 know the origin or the meaning, and which 

 clearly indicated their derivation from an 

 older, a more intelligible, but a forgotten 

 faith. 



This is also eminently true of the religious 

 rites and practices of some of the Hill tribes 

 of India. A most curious and interesting 

 account of humin sacrifices by the Khonds, 

 one of the Hill Tribes of Orissa, has been 

 published by my friend, Major-General John 

 Campbell, who has been mainly instrumental, 

 under the Government of India, in the abolition 

 of this horrid rite. The absolute rule that 

 the victims must be procured by purchase, 

 stands in unmistakeable relation to the only 



