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 The Religion of the Andaman Islanders. 271

my observation does not agree with Mr. Man's. I venture to think that, perhaps unwittingly, Mr. Man suggested to his informant that Puluga was angry if one man wronged another, and the native of course agreed, as a native generally does agree to any suggestion,

VI. With the sixth point, raising as it does the whole question of Andamanese belief in a future life, I cannot now deal.

It will be seen from the above how widely my inter- pretation of Andamanese religion differs from that of Mr. Man, and yet my observations, except on one or two points, are in entire agreement with his. Our differ- ences are almost entirely differences of interpretation, and as between two different interpretations of one phenomenon there is only one test by which we can choose, and that test is strictness of method.

A. R. Brown.