Note 260 — LECTURE V. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Rite.

Stephen Powers, Indians of California, pp. 181, 207. The Tasmanians and Fuegians, probably the lowest of known tribes, burned their dead. Hyades et Deniker, Mission Scientifique, p. 379; Fenton, History of Tasmania, p. 95. Some tribes gave as a reason for burning their dead that otherwise bears and wolves would eat the corpse, and the soul would be obliged to take on their forms.—Pres. Message and Ac. Docs., 1851, pt. iii., p. 506.