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native names used by themselves, and which terms given bv 
other people ?• 8. Do they trace their descent from a hrst 
ancestor or chief, or several ? Do they derive their name fiom 
his ? and does it appear that he is an eponymic personage, 
invented to account for the existence of the tribe or race ? 
9. Do families trace their descent from a single ancestor ? and 
does he appear to be real or mythic ? 
10. Do the people believe themselves indigenes in their 
land, or to have come from elsewhere ? 11. Do they consider 
other tribes, related to them by language, as having branched 
off from them, or vice versa, or all from some other national 
source? 12. What have they to say of former migrations? 
13. Do they believe their nation was once poorer and smaller ? 
and has increased and improved, or that their ancestors were 
a greater and wiser and happier nation than themselves ? 
14. What do they say as to the invention of their arts, the 
origin of their customs and laws, &c. ? 15. What are their 
tradicions of national heroes ? do they seem historical or 
mythic ? 16. What have they to say as to the introduction 
and changes of their religion, invention of new ceremonies 
&c. ? 17. Have they traditions to account for monuments, 
such as old graves, mounds, sites of villages, &c., in their 
district ? 18. Any traditions of great floods ? 
E. B. T. 
No. XLVI.—ARCHAEOLOGY. 
Much information is wanted respecting the archaeology of 
savage and barbarous countries. Most of the stone imple¬ 
ments received from Australia and the Pacific Islands are of 
recent manufacture, and but little evidence has yet comp 
to hand to throw light on the origin and duration of the 
stone period of culture in those regions. In New Zealand, 
however, something has been effected in this direction by 
discoveries in ancient deposits. In Japan, evidence of a 
