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and a dance pecnliar to the rite. From the same author! we have 
received a few other publications, which refer to the sights seen and 
facts gathered by himself among the distant tribes visited by him. 
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between Vancouver Island and the main land. The number 
of the Indians at present living in British Columbia is 
put down by Boas at 38,500 (p. 635). “A Year among the 
Eskimo” in Bulletin of American Geographical Society, New 
York, 1887, pp. 383-402, impart to us some ideas how the 
Eskimos of the shores of Baffin’s Bay make their living during 
the trying winter season of these high latitudes, and also adds myths 
and songs of this strange people, especially the Sedna legend. This 
same legend of the Central Eskimos, together with other stories and 
traditions, are more especially dwelt upon in “The Eskimo” in 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1887, pp. 35-39. 
Curiously enough, the thunder is a prominent feature in the mytho- 
logy of these frosty climates (p. 37). Mythologic traits of all the 
Northwestern tribes are discussed in some German articles of Boas 
in the Globus of Braunschweig, 1888 ; the first of these legends is 
contained in No. 8, pp. 121-127 ; the second in No. 10, pp. 153-157. 
The Sedna legend, together with a considerable number of other 
mythic tales, legends and stories of these parts, is reproduced in 
as’ article: “ Die religiösen Vorstellungen and einige Gebrinche 
der zentralen Eskimos,” (Petermann’s Mitteil. 1887, pp., 302-316.) 
His full enumeration of the villags and settlements of the 
Kwakiutl _people will be found in “ Census and Reservatious of 
the Kwakiutl Nation,” with map. (Bulletin of the Am. Geograph. 
Society,) 1887, No. 3., pp. 225-232. 
sete of which the title is mentioned above, and another of 
even columns in “ Ausland” of Stuttgart, 188, pp. 281-286, 
Die Indianer des britischen Columbia.” his 
ery the achievements of Qanikila, or the “ Wanderer,” who is 
puted to be the Son of God, and sent by God from the heavens 
, Popular Science Monthl , 
| of New York, March, 1888, pp. 628-636. 
Ripe Royal Societv, Danada, pp. 75-78, 1887, and an article of 
Dic T golumns in “ Ausland” of Stuttgart, 1888, pp. 281-286, entitled, 
ndianer des britrschen Columbia. 
