refuge_, or huts of safety, where the most deadly foe dare not enter for his victim. They never violate a female captive, and upon the Hebrew principle, that their blood shall not be contaminated by interunion;--this has been strictly followed in all their wars with the Europeans. They also reject the savage practice _of civilization_ upon the lofty principle of manly virtue! The "medicine-bag" or pouch is carried by every member of the Tribe;--it is suspended to a bead-belt, which crosses the breast by passing over the left shoulder, and hangs on the right side; it contains, as they say and believe, _preservatives_ to keep them from sickness or defeat. These are essentially the _phylacteries_ referred to by THE {SAVIOUR}, and previously condemned by MOSES; for the word _phylactery_ is derived from the Greek tongue, and denotes a _preservative_; and in the time of MOSES they were worn by his people in great excess; and so by the Northern native. MOSES checked the excessive use of the "preservatives" and changed the custom; for by his command the priesthood alone wore the phylactery, which was at last a frontlet of parchment for the forehead, upon which was written an extract from the laws, that "those that run might read." Then the absence of all idols or symbolical devices, and the worship of _the One God_ (_i. e._ Great Spirit); their never pronouncing _the name_, JEHOVAH, but in syllables, and those separated by long ceremonies, thus truly fulfilling the Hebrew law, "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD THY GOD in vain." The name with them sounds as if written, _Ye-hoh-vah_, and is only pronounced by the Aaron of the tribe. In their hymns of rejoicing, the word _Hal-le-lu-yah_ is distinctly uttered. To the foregone analogies is to be added the general and firm belief in _the Immortality of the soul!_ But beyond all this as proof of their origin, is the practice of the great covenant between the ALMIGHTY FATHER and the Patriarch Abraham--viz., _Circumcision!_ And it does not exist, as in parts of Egypt and the Asiatic nations, for the purpose of supposed health, (in which belief it was practised in ancient Egypt by _both_ sexes,) but as a _religious_ custom, handed down from time immemorial! The custom now is not general, but it does exist; and we must be understood as referring back at least two hundred years in our review, to the period of the Pilgrim Fathers, when the Northern Aborigines numbered _fifteen millions_,--now they scarcely number two and a half! All the customs, however, noticed, are practised at the present period by the uncontrolled Aboriginal. If all other evidences were not received, that of Circumcision, as a _religious_ ceremony, must be viewed by the most sceptical, as direct proof of identity between the Northern Aborigines and the ancient Hebrews. The custom we have written is not general, it is only found in the more _settled_ tribes; this even supports our belief, for in this very fact is traced again the