REDMEN ; SOME OF THEIR THOUGHTS. 
That the land extends beyond the parts of which he has 
experience he takes for granted ; for he occasionally, 
though very rarely, sees other beings come from parts 
unexplored by him. He has, in fa6t, never had the 
slightest occasion to imagine a limit of lands, never any 
reason to suppose a limit to the land which he knows. 
It extends, for him, beyond the habitations of the neigh- 
bouring hostile Redmen, beyond the mountains, the sea 
and the sky, beyond all or any of these which happen to 
limit his own wanderings. Any limit to this extension 
he neither accepts nor rejects ; he simply never ques- 
tions. He does not himself go beyond the sea, but he 
occasionally sees other men come thence, and he hears 
from these of land beyond those waters unpassable to 
him. Just so he sees an apparently firm sky, separated 
by an ocean of air impassable to him, and to which he 
does not know the way, but to which he sees other beings, 
birds, for instance, and even, as he believes, other men 
go. Above the sky, as beyond the sea, the river or the 
mountains, the land, he thinks, extends, open to him if 
he only dare find the way and go. Their ancestors, the 
traditions of some Redmen tell them, came from the part 
of the land which lies beyond the sky, by climbing down 
a tall tree or a hanging bush-rope ; or, in other cases, 
they came, he hears, from the land beyond the sea, in 
canoes. One such tradition will serve to illustrate the 
extreme naturalness of these ideas. It is a Warrau tale, 
which tells how the ancestors of that tribe once lived in 
the land beyond the sky. There one of them, a famous 
hunter, one day shot his arrow into a bird, which fell into 
a deep pit and disappeared. Gazing down into the hole, 
the hunter saw daylight at the bottom, and before long 
