tight and Maui gave him a great whipping with the jawbone; he screamed and roared; they held him there for a long time, (the Age of Darkness,) and at last they let him go; and weak from his wounds, (obscured by clouds,) he crawls slowly along his path. Here the jaw of the wolf Fenris, which reached from earth to heaven, in the Scandinavian legends, becomes a veritable jaw-bone which beats and ruins the sun. It is a curious fact that the sun in this Polynesian legend is _Ra_, precisely the same as the name of the god of the sun in Egypt, while in Hindostan the sun-god is Ra-ma. In another Polynesian legend we read of a character who was satisfied with nothing, "even pudding would not content him," and this unconscionable fellow worried his family out of all heart with his new ways and ideas. He represents a progressive, inventive race. He was building a great house, but the days were too short; so, like Maui, he determined to catch the sun in nets and ropes; but the sun went on. At last he succeeded; he caught him. The good man then had time to finish his house, but the sun cried and cried "until the island of Savai was nearly drowned."[1] And these myths of the sun being tied by a cord are, strange to say, found even in Europe. The legends tell us: "In North Germany the townsmen of Bösum sit up in their church-tower and hold the sun by a cable all day long; taking care of it at night, and letting it up again in the morning. In 'Reynard the Fox,' the day is bound with a rope, and its bonds only allow it to come slowly on. The Peruvian Inca said the sun is like a tied beast, who goes ever round and round, in the same track."[2] That is to say, they recognized that he is not a god, but the servant of God. [1. Tyler's "Early Mankind," p. 347. 2. Ibid., p. 352.] {p. 185} Verily the bands that knit the races of the earth together are wonderful indeed, and they radiate, as I shall try to show, from one spot of the earth's surface, alike to Polynesia, Europe, and America. Let us change the scene again to the neighborhood of the Aztecs: We are told of two youths, the ancestors of the Miztec chiefs, who separated, each going his own way to conquer lands for himself: