[26] See Brinton, p. 242. ‘Nowhere (in the New World) was any well-defined doctrine that moral turpitude was judged and punished in the next world. No contrast is discoverable between a place of torments and a realm of joy; at the worst but a negative castigation awaited the liar, the coward, and the niggard.’

[27] For other instances of the myth of the heaven-bridge, and its wide range, see Mr. Tylor’s Early History of Mankind, p. 348.

[28] Williams, Fiji, i. 244.

[29] Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, iii. 71-77.

[30] Mariner, ii. 137.

[31] Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, ii. 315. ‘Jedes Thier, auch die kleinste Fliege, ersteht sofort nach ihrem Tode und lebt unter der Erde.’

[32] Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, iii. 83. ‘Endlich wurden die besonderten Theile nebst den Knochen in der Kiste begraben. Man glaubte, das Opferthier werde von den Göttern wieder belebt und in den Saiwo versetzt.’

[33] Dall, Alaska, p. 89.

[34] Schoolcraft, I. T., v. 91, 403; ii. 68.

[35] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, iii. 268.