CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER III. 
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Food — How procured — How prepared — Limitation as to age, &c. 244 
CHAPTER IY. 
Property in land— Dwellings— Weapons— Implements — Government 
— Customs — Social Relations — Marriage — Nomenclature . 296 
CHAPTER V. 
Ceremonies and Superstitions— Forms of burial — Mourning customs — 
Religious ideas — Empirics, &c. . . . 332 
CHAPTER YI. 
Numbers — Diseases — Cause of limited Population — Crimes against 
Europeans — Amongst themselves — Treatment of each other in dis- 
tribution of food, &c. . . . 368 
CHAPTER VII. 
Language, Dialects, Customs, &c. — General similarity throughout the 
Continent — Causes of differences — Route by which the Natives have 
overspread the country, &c. . . .391 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Effects of contact with Europeans — Attempts at Improvement and 
civilization — Account of Schools — Defects of the system , 412 
CHAPTER IX. 
Suggestions for improvement of system adopted towards the Natives 458 
Explanation of the Plates of Native Ornaments, Weapons, Implements, 
and Works of Industry . . 5Qg, 
