The Sanskrit Language.--Its Relations to certain Modern Languages of India; to the Slavonic and Lithuanic of Europe.--Inferences.-- Brahminism of the Puranas.--Of the Institutes of Menu.--Extract. --Of the Vedas.--Extract.--Inferences.--The Hindús.--Sikhs.-- Biluchi.--Afghans.--Wandering Tribes.--Miscellaneous Populations. --Ceylon.--Buddhism.--Devil-worship.--Vaddahs. 150 CHAPTER V. British Dependencies in the Malayan Peninsula.--The Oceanic Stock and its Divisions.--The Malay, Semang, and Dyak Types.--The Orang Binua.--Jakuns.--The Biduanda Kallang.--The Orang Sletar.--The Sarawak Tribes.--The New Zealanders.--The Australians.--The Tasmanians. 203 CHAPTER VI. DEPENDENCIES IN AMERICA. The Athabaskans of the Hudson's Bay Country.--The Algonkin Stock. --The Iroquois.--The Sioux.--Assineboins.--The Eskimo.--The Kolúch.--The Nehanni.--Digothi.--The Atsina.--Indians of British Oregon, Quadra's and Vancouver's Island.--Haidah.--Chimsheyan.-- Billichula.--Hailtsa.--Nutka.--Atna.--Kitunaha Indians.-- Particular Algonkin Tribes.--The Nascopi.--The Bethuck.--Numerals from Fitz-Hugh Sound.--The Moskito Indians.--South American Indians of British Guiana.--Caribs.--Warows.--Wapisianas.-- Tarumas.--Caribs of St. Vincent.--Trinidad. 224 PREFACE. The following pages represent a Course of Six Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, Manchester, in the months of February and March of the present year; the matter being now laid before the public in a somewhat fuller and more systematic form than was compatible with the original delivery. ETHNOLOGY OF THE BRITISH DEPENDENCIES. CHAPTER I. DEPENDENCIES IN EUROPE. HELIGOLAND AND THE FRISIANS.--GIBRALTAR AND THE SPANISH STOCK.--MALTA.--THE IONIAN ISLANDS.--THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. _Heligoland._--We learn from a passage in the _Germania_ of Tacitus, that certain tribes agreed with each other in the worship of a goddess who was revered as _Earth the Mother_; that a sacred grove, in a sacred island, was dedicated to her; and that, in that grove, there stood a holy wagon, covered with a pall, and touched by the priest only. The goddess herself was drawn by heifers; and as long as she vouchsafed her presence among men, there was joy, and feasts, and hospitality; and peace amongst otherwise fierce tribes instead of war and violence. After a time, however, the goddess withdrew herself to her secret temple--satiated with the converse of mankind; and then the wagon, the pall, and the deity herself were bathed in the holy lake. The administrant slaves were sucked up by its waters. There was terror and there was ignorance; the reality being revealed to those alone who thus suddenly passed from life to death.