the 
_ Matter whatever. If the you pea 
364 A. S. Bickmore on the Ainos of Saghalien. 
They reckon time by twelve moons or months, and three 
seasons : when the snow melts, when the flowers appear, and 
when they fade. When any one is sick they sacrifice a dog 
on the top of a mountain—the higher the mountain the more 
they reverence it. The Cossack thinks that they believe in a 
Supreme Being, and that they only pray to the mountain to 
intercede for them with this exalted Deity. They are natu- 
rally a very reverential people, and do worship the sun, the 
moon, and the stars, but only as intercessors, according to the 
_ Cossack. (Their religion may be regarded as a modified form 
of Shamanism), 
Vhat the Cossack has said in respect to their raising and 
killing the bear is exactly true of the Gilyaks as they repre- 
sented their customs and notions to me. 
__™ The southern half of the peninsula of Kamtschatka is occupied by the Kamt- 
Psi Koriaks. The very 
als Itulms ; an e€ northern y ‘ : 
i corner of Asia is the territory of the Tchuktchis. The following habits 
of the Koriaks and Tchuktchis, compiled from Mr. Pauly’s great work, will show 
he similarity of the customs of those peoples with th t f the Ainos given 
ye:— 
women tattoo themselves, because 
rages of time.” When a Koriak 
