RECORD ID

3724

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang

AUTHOR

Not specified

d, the same reviewer informs us that " Captain Graah praises highly the honesty, hospitality, and, according to their own ideas, the good manners and politeness of these heathens (the Esquimaux of Davis' Straits). They have no religion, no prayers, sacrifices, or other religious observances ; but they have a notion of higher unembodied beings, and ascribe a spirit or power to fire, water, air, the ocean, &c."t In answer to a question which I proposed in writing to the Kev. Mr. Schmidt, of the German Mission to the aborigines at Moreton Bay, as to whether the natives of that locality had any idea of a God, or any object of worship,.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive