We turn away to the savage tribes of South America and find many of the forms of faith and worship which we have seen among the Northern Indians and among the nations of the Eastern world at about the time of the dispersion of the nations. Thus among the Amazon Indians of Western Brazil, we find the same worship of the sun that we have seen in Egypt, in Assyria, in Japan, and among the Indians of North America. A traveler among them says: “A sound fell upon our ears that seemed to issue from the depths of a distant cavern. We could tell it to be a chorus of voices, chanting some sad or solemn refrain. As we listened it grew louder, as if the chanters were drawing nearer; and in the same degree, it was becoming more joyful. All at once a procession appeared approaching the spot, men marching two and two, with files of women intermingled. “As its head emerged from among the thick-standing tree-trunks, we recognized our old Zummate friends, dressed in all the gala of a grand holiday, with plumed circlets upon their heads, feather armlets, and garters of the same, girt just below the knee. “On reaching the malocca, they broke ranks, at the same time bursting into peals of joyous laughter. Then surrounding they embraced us, the chief in a speech again making us welcome to their village. “We soon discovered the cause of their absence from home with all these mysterious proceedings. The day was a grand festival--a religious ceremony annually observed by the tribe, when every man, woman and child go forth into the woods, to worship the sun. “There, near the mouth of the Amazon, and amid the mountains of Guiana, is found the same _culte_, observed by the ancient Peruvians in the days of Pizarro and the Mexicans before Cortez Christianized them.” THE ARAUCANIANS. The Araucanians, in the north-western part of South America, believe in a supreme being, and in many subordinate spirits, good and bad. They believe also in omens and divinations, but they have neither temples nor idols, nor religious rites; and discover upon the whole so little aptitude for the reception of religious ideas that the Catholic missionaries that have settled among them have had very little success in imbuing their minds with a knowledge of Christianity. They believe in a future state, and have a confused tradition respecting a deluge from which some persons were saved on a high mountain; but in other respects religious knowledge is lacking. PATAGONIA. The religion of the Patagonian is a Polytheism, the natives believing that there are great numbers of deities, some good and some evil. Each family is under the guardianship of one of the good deities, and all the members of that family join him when they die. Beside these gods there are subordinate demons, good to their own friends, but bad toward all others; so that, on the whole, the bad predominates in them. They are called by the name of Valichu.