Excerpt from Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands: An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Recreations, Peaceful and Warlike, of the Uncivilised World Chap. Xxvi.-religion in savage lands - the m terious still small voice - 1ts exist ence in sociable from human nature ih comprehensible synonymous with evil in the savage mind - nothing so in comprehensive as death - nothing so much feared-death the savage's poisoned honey-pot - the gree-gree mau must be patronized at any price - Samoan mythology - Tangaloa and his daughter she descends and plants a creeping plant on the barren rock - what the plant grew to the man who pushed the heavens up - the young men who resolved to visit the moon the one was smoked up and the other climbed up - how the moon came down and took up a scoffing woman - the child of the sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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