prophecy--its verification--the dream of Little Wasp--Indian picture-writing--signs of the different tribes--what stands for “kill”--a narration in pantomime--Crashey Jane’s compliments to the editor--Mr. Catlin’s Indian experiences--he paints the “old bear”--the artist is made much of and likes it--the benighted savages kiss the hem of Mr. Catlin’s swallow-tail--he does not get on quite so well with the ladies--all difficulties conquered--Mandan festival of the deluge--“seeking whom he may devour”--discomfiture and flight of the prince of darkness--covetousness of the North American Indians--Mr. Murray’s experience on this head--the old gentleman who coveted the elastic jacket--how he found it a tight fit--“a good creature in the ice-month”--the Ojibbeway nations of old--the Pawnees--the Delawares--the confederate six nations--the Shawnees--From North America to Abyssinia--religious ceremonies observed in that country--mothers of small account--purification of houses and platters--the Kalijas and the Lubas--concerning Boudas--Bouda exorcists--Mr. Stern makes the acquaintance of a Bouda--the woman’s tremendous struggles and arrival of the exorcist--his operations--he interrogates the Bouda and obtains from it some interesting information--its strange vagaries before it consents to take its departure--the Zar--Religion of the Dahoman--the food of the sacred buzzards--fetish snakes and the punishment for harming them--the Bonny people and the jewjews--popular superstitions--the king’s charms against witchcraft--the sacrifice to the bar--the unconscious victim--his doom--sacred pig’s jaws--“talk and pray”--devil worship--the “Sukia” of the Mosquito shore--her unprepossessing appearance--Mr. Bard gives her a piece of calico on condition she stands in the midst of a blazing fire--she earns the calico and lives to wear it--the belly gods of the Tinguians--Madagascar “the country without a god”--“Sikidy”--the ceremony of touching the bull--King Peppel’s religious convictions--a palaver unpalatable to his sable majesty--“Suppose God were here I must kill him”--a modest wish to live for ever--Mr. Moffat and the African king--startling news of a universal resurrection--“will all the slain in battle arise?”--a Namaqua chief’s religious ideas--frying the sun in a pot--“when we are dead we _are_ dead”--Boles-ki-bo--a Basutos witch-finder--guessing made easy--end of the farce, commencement of the tragedy--unclean meats of the Damaras--on the manufacture of rain--drought at Kuruman--the rain-maker sent for--the commands of the great benefactor--he churns rain from a milk sack--goat rain and ox rain--the ceremony of the blighted tree--the sprinkling of the people with a zebra’s tail dipped in water--still no rain--he demands a baboon “perfect to a hair” and is not sorry that it cannot be procured--he must have the