I am not at present in possession of evidence to show this in the Corea itself (almost totally unknown and unexplored), but in the island of Formosa the same mode of burial is observed, only that among the Formosans other customs are added, which remind one of the commemorative customs of the Mandans. CATLIN, p. 8. "Their (Mandan) dead, partially embalmed, are tightly wrapped in buffalo hides softened with glue and water, and placed on slight scaffolds, above the reach of animals or human hands, each body having its separate scaffold." The Mandan dance was round "_the big canoe_," and a part of their ceremony on the roof of their wigwams. Among the Opischeschaht _Indians_ (_vide Field_, Oct. 2, 1869) there was a dance which they called "the roof dance." "While the dance and song were going on below, leaped up and down between the roof-board, pushed aside for that purpose, making a noise like thunder.... After the dance was finished an old Seshaaht came forward, and remarked, that as it was a dance peculiar to his tribe it could not be omitted," though "very injurious to the roof." OGILBY'S JAPAN, p. 52. "The manner of disposing of their (Formosans') dead and funeral obsequies is thus: When any one dies, the corpse being laid out, after twenty-four hours they elevate it upon a convenient scaffold or stage, four feet high, matted with reeds and rushes, near which they make a fire, so that the corpse may dry by degrees.... They drink intoxicating liquors. One beats on a drum made _like a chest_, but _longer_ and _broader_, and turning _the bottom upwards_; the women get up, and two by two, back to back, move their legs and arms in a dancing time and measure, which pace, or taboring tread, sends a kind of murmuring or doleful sound from the _hollow tree_." _N.B._--Their boats were constructed by hollowing out a tree (_vide_ Catlin's "Last Rambles," p. 99).[227] [227] Compare what Ogilby (p. 36) says: "Near Firando (Japan) at an _inlet of the sea_ stands an idol, _being nothing but a chest of wood_, about three feet high, _standing like an altar_ [the big canoe was placed on end among the Mandans], whither women, when they suppose they have conceived, go in pilgrimage, offering on their knees rice or other presents." At p. 136, at Jado, it is said, "somewhat farther stands a temple _dedicated to all sorts of animals with a very high double roof_." (Query, Noah's ark?)