This work entails sketches of various rites and ceremonies in the following countries or regions: Abyssinia; ancient nations of Central America; Celebes; Ceylon; Congo; Fiji; Greece; Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands; Hottentots; Java; Malaya; Marianne Islands (Ladrones); Marquesas Islands; Netherlands; North American Indians; northern regions and Greenland; Persia; Peru; Philippine Islands; Poland; Polynesia; Tonga; Russia and Tartary; Society Islands; South American Indians; Sumatra; Tasmania; Turkey.