THE early health beliefs of the inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, a territory of the United States stretching in a broken chain from the western end of the Alaskan Peninsula to Kamchatka off the eastern coast of Siberia for a distance of about 1200 miles, are described by Veniaminov as follows:The old men taught that whoever should talk badly about the sun, that for instance it heats too much, or hides itself too much, etc., will be blinded by it and not allowed to see its light. The moon will slay its detractor with a stone. And he who . . .