. L'histoire de l'humanité. Les visites payées par des personnes vivant soulsof sont souvent entravées par des puttingon un masque, ce qui aurait coupé le soulsreturn. Les âmes qui ne restent pas non plus initedavec la divinité, ni ne peuvent être des bysacrifices prophétisé, errent sur les maisons au soir comme des fantômes. Ces âmes errantes peuvent être entendues dans le bruissement des feuilles et le désir des vagues, ou vues par des fantômes blanc de lune. Les âmes des personnes qui ont haddié à distance ont été attirées par un tissu blanc tartinga, et si un sauterelle ou un antint à l'appel, il a été considéré que l'endhad a été atteint. La vieillesse est souvent obtainedre

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. The history of mankind . it. Visits paid by soulsof living people are often hindered by puttingon a mask, which would cut off the soulsreturn. Souls which neither remain unitedwith the deity, nor can be propitiated bysacrifices, roam about the houses at nightas ghosts. These wandering souls may beheard in the rustle of the leaves and thesurge of the waves, or seen by moonlight aswhite phantoms. Souls of persons who haddied at a distance were enticed by spreadinga white cloth, and if a grasshopper or an antcame to the call, it was deemed that the endhad been attained. Old age often obtainedreverence from a wish to be on good termswith the soul which was soon to depart.The deeper meaning of the widespreadcustom of sending wives and servants toaccompany the dead into eternity, lay in thewish to give the departed soul an escort, or to send at least one soul as protec-tion, in case it stood in need thereof. In this way a mother, grandmother, oraunt was strangled when a child died, that the infant soul might not be. ^ Child-mummy on the bier used for burial, fromTorres Straits—one-sixth real size. (BerlinMuseum.) THE HISTORY OF MANKIND unprotected. Provision also had to be made for the fights which, as we haveseen, take place on the road to Hades. It is only after several days, when itmay be assumed that the soul of the corpse has been turned into a spirit, thatthe mourning begins ; its object being even to this day to start the spirit uponthe road into the next world, which it is perhaps unwilling to take. In viewof the possibility of a periodic return, care is taken to renew the noise at statedtimes. Great variety prevails in modes of interment. In the west the body is keptat hand as long as possible ; and at least portions of it, especially the skull, andabove all the lower jaw, are prepared for permanent conservation. On the Maclaycoast of New Guinea the corpse has usually to be dried before the fire in the hut.In other islands it is hung up in mats between the br

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