Another indication that the mission of the goel was to cancel the loss of a life rather than to avenge it, is found in the primitive customs of the New World. “Even in so rude a tribe as the Brazilian Topanazes,” the Farrer (citing Eschwege, in _Prim. Man. and Cust._, p. 164), “a murderer of a fellow tribesman would be conducted by his relations to those of the deceased, to be by them forthwith strangled and buried [with his forfeited blood in him], in satisfaction of their rights; the two families eating together for several days after the event as though for the purpose of [or, as in evidence of] reconciliation,”--not of satisfied revenge. Yet more convincing than all, in the line of such proofs that it is restitution, and not vengeance, that is sought by the pursuit of blood in the mission of the goel, is the fact that in various countries, when a man has died a natural death, it is the custom to seek blood, or life, from those immediately about him; as if to restore, or to equalize, the family loss. Thus, in New South Wales, “when any one of the tribe dies a natural death, it is usual to avenge [not to avenge, but to meet] the loss of the deceased by taking blood from one or other of his friends,” and it is said that death sometimes results from this endeavor (Angas’s _Sav. Life_, II., 227). In this fact, there is added light on the almost universal custom of blood-giving to, or over, the dead. (See, _e. g._ Ellis’s _Land of Fetish_, pp. 59, 64; Stanley’s _The Congo_, II., 180-182; Angas’s _Sav. Life_, I., 98, 331; II., 84, 89 f.; Ellis’s _Polyn. Res._, I., 527-529; Dodge’s _Our Wild Indians_, p. 172 f.; _First An. Rep. of Bureau of Ethn._, pp. 109, 112, 159 f., 164, 183, 190.) THE COVENANT-REMINDER. It has already been shown, that the blood-stained record of the covenant of blood, shielded in a leathern case, is proudly worn as an armlet or as a necklace, by the Oriental who has been fortunate enough to become a sharer in such a covenant; and that there is reason for believing that there are traces of this custom, in the necklaces, the armlets, the rings, and the frontlets, which have been worn as the tokens of a sacred covenant, in well-nigh all lands, from the earliest days of Chaldea and Egypt down to the present time. There is a confirmation of this idea in the primitive customs of the North American Indians, which ought not to be overlooked.