the best uses of tapu--its advantages and disadvantages--Tapu among the Samoans--snake and shark and thunder tapus--Born tapus--witchcraft in New Zealand--Introduction of an Englishman to a “retired” witch--how he found her--she declines to act, having given up the business and become a “praying” woman--she is persuaded, and sets about humbugging the visitors--the little beetle in the thatch--the god begging a blanket--the Englishman not perfectly convinced--Religion among the Dayaks of the land and sea--the supreme Tewata--extent of their religious system--“physic” for sacred anointing--the four chief spirits of the Dayak belief--how man became less than the spirits--what becomes of the Dayak when he dies--the artful “Umot Perusong”--“Mino Buau,” or warrior ghosts--alarming apparition of a headless dog--Dayak methods of propitiating the gods--lucky days, omens, and warnings--the ceremony of making brothers--how Singauding became the brother of Mr. St. John--a sanguinary cigarette--how the Kiniahs enter into the bands of brotherhood--making brothers in Western Africa--pledged in blood--Dayak good and evil spirits--what it is to dream of Singallong Burong the god of war--delicate way of alluding to small-pox--has “he” left you?--the Karam of Baram and his god Totadungan--the Dayak who went to heaven--what he saw--the sacred Bornean bull--Dayak superstitions concerning dogs and snakes--the legend of the painted dog--the savage of North America and his “happy hunting ground”--“Kitchi-manitou” and “Matchi-munedoo”--the North American Indians’ version of the flood--a savage Noah--how the earth was reformed--the loon, the beaver, and the musk-rat--a legend of Kitchi-Manitou--he meets the first man--pitying his disconsolate condition he finds him a mate, Mami by name--the happy meeting--their garden of Eden with its “tables and chairs and glass windows”--Kitchi-Manitou warns them against the fruit of the evil tree--Mami is tempted and falls--she invites her husband and his weakness is too strong for him--anger of Kitchi-Manitou--banishment of the erring pair--they begin their worldly cares--Mami’s husband finds a book--finding it too big to carry about he declines to appropriate it--he is furnished with one of convenient size in which he learns the art of medicine--the Indian who made a return trip to heaven--how he got there, what he saw, and how he got back to earth again--the man of the fire-stone--his great enemy Manabozho--they have a terrible fight and the fire-stone man is beaten--how Manabozho exerted himself for the good of mankind--his friend Chibiabos--the Manitous play Chibiabos a cunning trick--grief of Manabozho--the friends are united--discovering a “thunder’s nest”--Hans Hansom and the beaver trapper--“second sight” among the Winnebagos--the