344 A Bushman, questioned by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, “could not state any difference between a man and a brute—he did not know but a buffalo might shoot with bows and arrows as well as a man, if it had them.” John Campbell, _Travels in South Africa, being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of that Country_, ii. 34. When the Russians first landed on one of the Alaskan islands the people took them for cuttle-fish, “on account of the buttons on their clothes.” Petroff, _Alaska_, p. 145. 345 Rev. J. Perham, “Sea Dyak Religion,” _Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society_, No. 10, p. 221. Cp. C. Hupe, “Korte verhandeling over de godsdienst zeden, enz. der Dajakkers,” in _Tijdschrift voor Neêrland’s Indië_, 1846, dl. iii. 160; S. Müller, _Reizen en onderzoekingen in den Indischen Archipel_, i. 238; Perelaer, _Ethnographische Beschrijving der Dayaks_, p. 7. 346 Sibree, _The Great African Island_, p. 269. 347 Raffenel, _Voyage dans l’Afrique Occidentale_ (Paris, 1846), p. 84 _sq._ 348 Bastian, _Die Völker des östlichen Asien_, v. 65. 349 Marsden, _History of Sumatra_, p. 292. 350 Steller, _Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka_, pp. 280, 331. _ 351 Voyages au Nord_ (Amsterdam, 1727), viii. 41, 416; Pallas, _Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen Reichs_, iii. 64; Georgi, _Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs_, p. 83. 352 Erman, _Travels in Siberia_, ii. 43. For the veneration of the polar bear by the Samoyedes, who nevertheless kill and eat it, see _ib._ 54 _sq._ 353 Bastian, _Der Mensch in der Geschichte_, iii. 26. 354 Max Buch, _Die Wotjäken_, p. 139. 355 Scheffer, _Lapponia_ (Frankfort, 1673), p. 233 _sq._ The Lapps “have still an elaborate ceremony in hunting the bear. They pray and chant to his carcase, and for several days worship before eating it.” E. Rae, _The White Sea Peninsula_ (London, 1881), p. 276. 356 Charlevoix, _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, v. 173 _sq._; Chateaubriand, _Voyage en Amérique_, pp. 172-181 (Paris, Michel Lévy, 1870). _ 357 Lettres édifiantes et curieuses_, vi. 171. Morgan states that the names of the Otawa totem clans had not been obtained (_Ancient Society_, p. 167). From the _Lettres édifiantes_, vi. 168-171, he might have learned the names of the Hare, Carp, and Bear clans, to which may be added the Gull clan, as I learn from an extract from _The Canadian Journal_ (Toronto) for March 1858, quoted in the _Academy_, 27th September 1884, p. 203. _ 358 A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt_, p. 117 (Middletown, 1820), p. 133 (Edinburgh, 1824). 359 Stephen Kay, _Travels and Researches in Caffraria_ (London, 1833), p. 138.