THE CAEOLINES. 



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purchase hatchets, saws, and knives from the traders, the people have scarcely 

 yet outlived the stone age, most of their implements still consisting of shells, fish- 

 bones and the like. 



In the eastern islands the American missionaries, who arrived in 1849, have 



Fig. 125.— Yap. 

 Scale 1 : 350,000. 



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reenwicr 



I38°20' 



Submarine Reefs. 



6 Miles. 



converted some thousands of the natives ; but hundreds have returned to their 

 ancestral practices, while in the western groups the prevailing religion is still 

 animism associated with the worship of trees, of mountains, of everything that 

 lives and moves, the fear of the spirits of air, and homage paid to their forefathers. 



