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THE CAEOLES'ES 285purchase hatcliets, saws, and knives from tlie traders, tlie people Lave scarcelyyet outlived the stone age, most of their implements still consisting of shells, fishbonesand the like.In the eastern islands the American missionaries, vrho arrived in 18-19, have-Fig.i2o.— Yat.Sc-Ue 1 :350,000.Essb on GSubmarine Reefs.converted some thousands of the natives ;hut hundreds have returned to theirancestral practices, while in the western groups the prevailing religion is stillanimism associated with the worship of trees, of mountains, of everything thatlives and moves, the fear of the spirits of air, and homage paid to their forefathers.