THE CANON OF CHURCHES. 373 
good authorities say, and on the first day 
of a child’s life they dedicate it to that 
great orb by placing it in his direct rays. 
In many other ways they show their de¬ 
votion to that source which has been 
loved by so many primitive people. 
Their whole range of worship would 
certainly be interesting in the extreme. 
They have the greatest dread of the owl, 
which, as is known elsewhere as well as 
here, has some association or other of 
evil connected with it, from the slightest 
disaster to death. How many other 
things they fear no one knows, but they 
certainly are not afraid to climb cliffs and 
crags that would frighten the average 
white man half to death to even con¬ 
template. 
That all their children are not killed off 
every month by falling from the eleva- 
