Curiosities of Savage Life ... Third edition. With woodcuts and designs by Harden S. Melville, etc

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CURIOSITIES OF SAVAGE LIFE. LONDON. A SAVAGE CHRIST* ft',' . W. DICKES. CUKIOSITIES 01 SAVAGE LIFE. BY JAMES GREENWOOD, AUTHOR OF "WILD SPORTS OP THE *WORLD." THIED EDITION. WITH WOODCUTS AND DESIGNS BY HARDEN S. MELVILLE ; ENGRAVED BY H. NEWSOM WOODS. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: S. 0. BEETON, 248, STRAND, W.C. 1865. HERTFORD : PaiNTED BY 8TKPHKN AU8TI***". AsNALsSIS OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY. of Mides — the medicine-bags and their mira culous power — the altar of green boughs — spitting out the shells— christening presents, 23 ; christening in New Zealand— christened three times — sneezing assent to a name — unceremonious treatment of female babies in New Zealand— odd New Zealand names, "Sheets," "Teapot," "Measles," etc., 26. Modern incredulity as to the present exist ence of the bona fide savage, 1 ; the savage considered mentally and morally — his do mestic life — his bed, his toilet, his hoard — man flesh — going to market for a joint of it — a picture with no bright side, 3 ; the author's proposition as to the division of his book — from the cradle to the kite and top — to the miseries and joys of courtship — to the marriage altar — to the larder — to the sooth ing pipe — to the sick couch and devil-doctor — to the battle-field — to the civil and criminal law court — to the abode of the rainmaker and the witch-finder — to the temple of heathen worship — to the grave, 8.

Chap. II. — Savage treatment of babies compared with civilized — the secret of the universal love for babies — better fee the butcher than the doctor — awaiting the return home of savage papa, 28 ; lack of affection for old folks in Southern Africa — turned out to die, 29 ; how the Figian treats his father — "better die at once than live to be a troublesome old man " — the treatment of grey hairs in North America, 31 ; the Indian's indifference to death, 35 ; accounts of Indian barbarity not overcolored — towns of refuge among the Choctaws — modes of torture — the victim prepared for the torture of fire — baited like a bear and lashed with fiery thongs — the clay crown to preserve the scalp-locks from burning — story of a Katahba brave, 36 ; his miraculous escape from the fire torture — his terrible revenge on his enemies — "Old Scranney"'a Cree warrior — his exploit with the red-hot gun-barreL 39 ; fiendish cruelty of Indian women — the Fox Indian wrapped in a flowing cloak — the revenge of Mahtotopa a Mandan chief— how he scalped the Eicaree warrior, 42 ; the law of scalping — the Franks and Anglo-Saxons formerly scalpers— the narrative of Mahtotopa's suicide — its cause — the North American Indian's "courage test" — horrid operation of skewers and pullies — spinning the victim — the finishing touch — concerning "medicine," 48; the dream of life— the couch in the tree — the dreamer acquires his "totem," 49 ; the "Shining Cloud's" experiences as a dreamer — "Shining Cloud's" grandfather instructs him as to his behaviour — "Shining Cloud " finding that he can't stand the hard ships imposed on liim goes home — tries again in the spring — is visited by a spirit — a journey to the -'wigwam in the skies" — "Shining Cloud" receives his "medicine" — his descent

Part I. Savage Birth And Boyhood

Chap. I. — The care of "babes and suck lings" a fair morality test, 9 ; babes as a rule tenderly cared for by their savage parents — Madagascar an exception — the god Sikiddy and how he controls the fate of Malagasey infants, 1 0 ; Figian contempt for female in fants — Figian mothers' mode of getting rid of a useless baby girl — a baby strangled to make room for an orphan — the Figian child taught to fight its mother, 1 1 ; the Samoan baby — its first meal of chewed cocoa-nut — a head flattening machine — how applied — its effects — the Flat -head nation, 14 ; an ugly specimen of Flat-head manners and customs — " Clark, how are you ? " 15; the North- American Indian mother — solicitude for in fants among the Sioux — a Sioux cradle song, 16 ; a Sioux mother's mourning — difficulty of a North-American infant finding its way to Paradise — devices to assist it — the "doll of sorrow" — how the Mosquito Indians lodge their newly horn, 18; the Apingi mode of treating wives — etiquette of tooth cutting among the AVazaramo — the spotted Cree baby — a murderess against her will, 20 ; North- American christenings — quaint names given to children — the ceremony of Midewi gamig — the wigwam altar — the procession VI ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.

Figian's complete fortune-teller— the augury of the teetotum— the trembling stick and the christened reeds — the Figian ceremony of Kalose rire — alluring the luve-ni-wai or children of the waters, 85 ; a village school in Caffre-land — examination of scholars — "Stick dance" of pupils and teachers, 27; the ceremony of "Boguera" — "Dr. Birch" on the Amazon, 88 ; the Bushman and his "Kebarrah"— preparations for the ceremony — knocking out the teeth — singular ejection of bones from the mouth of the officiating priest — dog and kangaroo dances — more dentistry — a sanguinary and nasty termination to the ceremonial, 92 ; the Kebarrah as practised by the Maequarrie tribes— fancy costumes of pipe-clay and swan's down — delicate tooth drawing — holloa if you dare — the war dance in honour of the newly-made warrior, 94 ; warrior initiation in other parts of Australia— among the Northern tribes — a sanguinary baptism — a terrible tattooing, 95 ; warrior test on the Amazon — among the Mandrucus — the ordeal of the venomous gloves — dancing with tortured hands— horrors of the few last minutes — all over and valour proved. to earth —his meeting with a bear, who turns tail at the mere sight of "Shining Cloud's" magic medicine, 54 ; the ambitious huntsman — how he insisted on his child's protracted fast — Death the deliverer — the dead dreamer and his redbreast spirit, 86.

Chap. III. — The wicked water king — the man who dreamt of him — he obeys the water king's call — the whirlpool — the water king appears— the magic powder and its awful price — penalty of dealing with things unhal lowed, 58; "medicine" again — how to be come "Grand Medicine" — the story of " Blackbird," a grand Omaha medicine— another "medicine" story concerning Tchatka the Left-handed — his ambition — his formid able uncle Istagon the One-eyed— Tchatka's miraculous "wah-kou" — Tchatka a secret poisoner— Istagon's death foretold by Tchatka — his dying agonies and suspicions — Tchatka threatened— his cunning lifts him out of dan ger and elevates him to the highest position in the land, 62 ; a few of the many legitimate modes of becoming "Grand Medicine " — the ordeal of the Sun — portrait of "Grand Medi cine" among the North-American Indians — an operation by a savage M.D. — novel cure for stitch in the side, 65 ; bad pay and a worse cure— the doctor called in to see baby — too late, 66 ; the doctor-priestesses of Bor neo—their combat with naked swords to frighten away the demon of sickness — catching a sick man's soul — the fee for that im portant operation — the Dayak ceremony of Berobat Sisab, 68 ; saving the soul of the Rice — a Dayak harvest home, 69 ; augury with cocoa-nuts — "the medicine" of the native African — a battle royal for the clip pings of a travellei*'s hair — the carpenter of Sangatnngo — concerning "Mondas," "Gree grees," aud "Fetiches."

Part II. Savage Pastime

Chap. IV. — The savage's disinclination for hard labour, 97; his aptitude for story teUing — the story of AYijunjou or "Pigeon's egg-head" — he starts with his companion from the Assinneboin country — arrives at AVashington — endeavours to enumerate the population by notching his pipe-stem — Pigeon' s-egg-head is "presented at court" — his fine limbs are tortured in civilized apparel — he returns to his tribe — tells ot the wonders he has seen — is named the greatest liar in the world — he distributes his riches among his friends — is shorn of his greatness excepting his broad sword and um brella—is thought "too clever by half," and as a wizard is shot through the head, 101 , similitude of savage and European games- New Zealand "cat's cradle" and kite flying — a legend of the Maoris — the story of Hine Moa, Tutanekai, and Tiki the trumpeter— Tutanekai's music is heard "over the water" — Hine Moa's savage breast is charmed thereby— Tutanekai plucks up courage and declares his love — his jealous brothers — Hine Moa resolves to swim the lake and join her lover— her landing and hiding at the hot spring— she breaks her lover's calabashes — Tutanekai sets out to revenge the insult — "Ah!

Tutanekai! it is I, your poor Hine Moa"— happy denouement, 106; the story Chap. IAr. — More about "Grand Medi cines," and "Ougangas," and "Kiaobs" — an Ouganga mode of discoverinsr a witch— how the witch-finder was dressed — hh modus operands, 75 ; the Kiaob of the Namaquas — a patient with a great snake in his stomach — how to get it out — witchery among the Caffres — ugliness essential to professional success— the art of "smelling" out a culprit —shameful imposture by Caffre diviners — the hidden property and the animated stick — the delinquent discovered and the penalty exacted — some information respecting the art of bullock slaughtering in Caffre-land, 81 ; thief-smelling in Abyssinia — the Lebashi and his human terrier, 82 ; a little more medicine — the performance of a Patagonian physician — plastering a sick child with mud — two pipes of tobacco the doctor's fee, S3; the ANALYSIS OF CONTEKsS.

VII of Patu-Paearche the New Zealand giantess — she goes out hunting and encounters Hatupatu — she carries him home as a mokai or pet — he sulks and won't eat — sends his mistress on a long journey and escapes while she is gone — he is pursued by the giantess — he is preserved from unheard-of dangers by his good genus Matiti matata — horrible end of the New Zealand giantess, 108 ; savage cock-fighting — how the Polynesians train their birds, 109; the sport of surf-swimming — wrestling in Tahiti — an unex pected "floorer" — tipaopao — lady wrestlers — the noble art of self-defence among the Figians, 112; savage musical instruments — the South-Sea Island drum — the palm-ra — the sacred shell trumpets — the vivo, or nose flute — the Equatorial African Handja — music from the grave, 115. appearance of the dancers— the palyertatta and the koonteroo — the performance of a Koonteroo man, 139 — another "corrobery" — the Australian snake dance — a savage pas seul — a dingo dance — dancing in Borneo — the festival of "Maugut" — Dayak head dance — pig's heads and human heads — a Dayak "scullery" — a Dayak sword dance, 143 ; from Borneo to the banks of the "White Nile— among the Hassanyeh — a Has sanyeh belle — a dance without music — the dancer's reward, 144; an Ottoe fancy dress ball — embarrassing position for a nervous person, 145; doing in Rome as the Romans do — a German's first essay as a "horse-dan cer," 146 ; a Rio Negro festival — ball dresses and decorations— instruments, warlike and musical — the dance of serpents — girdles of onc,as' teeth, and ankle rattles — necklaces, bracelets, and feathers monopolized by the male dancers, 149; the Rio Negro snake dance— an artificial snake forty feet long — "Capi" and the dance that results from drinking it, 151; the ancient game of ball as played by the Choctaws — the choice of champions — the night before the ball — gambling as to the result of the game, 152 ; an Australian bal masque — Darnley Island jokers — dancing in a tortoise-shell mask — a Torres Straits "Jack-in-the-green," 154.

Chap. V. — Man a smoking animal, 116; Indian belief in the sacred origin of tobacco — ditto as regards his pipe — the "Great Spirit " the first smoker — " Pipe Stone Quarry" — where situated and how approached — its singular appearance — rever ence in which it is held by Indians of all tribes, 118; "Medicine pipe-stem" — the pipe-stem carrier — social position of this functionary — frightful consequences of neg lecting the sacred trust, 120 ; special use of the grand pipe-stem — crying for war— the 6acred pipe in full blast — women not allowed to be present at its smoking, 122 ; "Smoking for horses" — "Take a horse, but take my mark on your back," 123; a Torres Straits pipe— a bottle of smoke, 124 ; tobacco and tobacco-pipes among the giants of Patagonia — armed with smoke — a quiet pipe in Damara-land — mild cure for "giddiness" arising from smoking — the Bechuanas as snuff manufacturers — preposterous "snuffers" — the Caffre as a snuffer —his snuff-box made of baked blood — his snuff-spoon and brush — how and where he carries his snuff-box, 127; how to manufacture a snuff-box, 128.

Chap. VII. — Savage story-tellers — the Thackerays and Scotts of the wigwam — savage authors listened to and not read — the North-American Indians silent listeners— the Southern and Central Africans just the contrary, 156 ; the Chippeway legend of Algon and the Magic Circle — how Algon went out hunting — finds the magic circle— hides, and observes an angel-freighted basket descend from the clouds — they get out of the car and dance within the circle and play with a diamond ball — Algon falls in love with the prettiest dancer — he attempts to seize her — she vanishes with the rest up into the clouds —he hides next day— the descent of the car — Algon fails once more — he tries a third time, and by virtue of his medicine-bag changes himself into a mouse— success of the "mouse-trap-' — their marriage — the angel wife grows weary of earth — weaves herself a basket and ascends to her original home, taking her son with her — after a lapse of time she comes down for her husband — every body made happy, 160 ; The Angel Bride — Onoswutaquto' s dream — Onoswutaquto accompanies his brother-in-law — the hole in the sky — what Onoswutaquto saw when he looked down — cruelty of his brother-in-law — Onoswutaquto grows tired of paradise and returns to earth — his polygamy and ruin, 163; Algonquin the Huntsman, or Lost Chap. VI. — Dancing considered as a pas time — jumping for joy — dances of the North American Indians— dog* dance of the Dacotas — the "village green" — murder of the "twa dogs" — 'banners of dog's-meat — dancing round two ugly "greasy poles," 131; the scalp dance — scalping in patomime — the snow dance — the dance for maize — sacrifice of green maize, 133 ; poor dance — novel mode of levying poor's-rates — beggar's dance — slave's dance — voluntary slaves — the As sinnebcin mode of performing the calumet dance of peace, 135; the sun dance—scald ings in honour of the Great Spirit — the Aus tralian "Kuri" dance — costume and general ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS. and Found — Algonquin's betrothed dies — ne goes to paradise to seek her— the old man at the gate — the lake surrounding the island of the blessed — the crystal canoe — he finds his betrothed — how the Master of Life received him — Algonquin is dismissed hope fully, 166; Otter-Heart, or the Good and Bad Squaw— the children in the wood — Otter-heart sets out to see life — he arrives at a village — he joins them at ball play and creates a sensation — is taken to the king's lodge and introduced to his daughters — ■ Matchi the AVicked, and Ochki Keue the Good — to avoid polygamy he takes flight — ■ is pursued by the sisters Good and Bad — is overtaken and climbs a tree — they cut at the tree with hatchets — by help of magic he rides off on a fir cone — is again overtaken in a hollow tree, but declines to come out — fresh strata gem on the part of the princesses — Matchi Koue nearly traps Otter-heart — Ochki Koue does entirely — they marry — he finds his wife is a descendant of the respectable beaver

family, and he being of the otter tribe is de lighted — the one injunction, "Never allow me, my dear husband, to wet my feet" — happiness begets negligence — the broken promise and the dire penalty, 173 ; Moowis, or the Man made op Snow and Rags — Mamoudaqokwa the beautiful coquette — her numerous admirers — Mamoudaginene pro poses and is declined — he falls ill in con sequence — by power of his medicine he re solves to punish the obdurate young woman — <_ la Fraukensticn he makes a man of snow and mud and rigs bim out in a handsome manner — the snow man pays court to Ma moudagoqwa — she reciprocates the sentiment — they are espoused— they go a journey, and Moowis the man of snow melts before his bride's eyes, 175; The Evil of Curiosity — Sayadio loses his sister — he goes in search of her spirit and takes a magic calabash to put it in — he finds it and brings it home — he loses it again in a most aggravating man ner, 176. mysterious pots — Maciloniane discovers a monster under a pot — Maciloniane con demned to carry him — the monster left in the lurch — he pursues his carrier — is at tacked and destroyed by Maciloniane's dogs — the magic leg — the herd of cows and the pearl of the herd — the brothers meet — Ma cilo's coveteousness and treachery — he kills his brothers and appropriates the herd ot cows— the awful bird that cannot be killed — Maciloniane betrayed and given up to justice — a termination for the tale of the white cow, 184 ; Death and the Compadre — Rio Negro story — inviting Death to act as godfather to make friends with him — the Compadre' s compact with Death — time's up ! no shirking the great debt — "I must take somebody," 186; concerning Abyssinian Bou das; The Donkeypied AVoman — her death and burial — the body sold to a Bouda who converts it into a donkey — an intelligent son — the sorcery detected and the woman restored to her natural shape — novel imposture in the cattle trade, 188 ; The Benevolent Toddy-maker— the toddy-maker picks up a boy at sea — the boy explains who he is and how he came there — he maintains him for many years — the Princess Nai Casuma seeks a husband — the male population assembled that she may take her choice — she selects the good toddy-man's adopted son, who is made Bitara of Majapahit— he raises his benefactor to the post of Cljief of the Toddy men, 192.

Part III. Savage Adornment, Courtship, And Marriage

Chap. IX. — Black and white — Doctor AVinterbottom's theory as to the reason why a negro is black — " Mulattos," " Quad roons," "Mestees," and "Sambos" — the palms of the negro's hands nealy as white as those of Europeans, 196 ; origin of per sonal adornment — an ancient savage of the Madam Rachacl sort — tattooing common among British sailors, 197 ; shaving with mussel-shells — the origin of tattooing according to New Zealand notions — how the operation is performed — a porangi or idiot tattooed to death, 198; Hiki Tangaroa — working according to price— tattooing con nected with embalming — ancient European traffic in New Zealand tattooed heads, 200 ; Figian tattooing — Figian tattooing tools — lucky escape of Tonga women from the dis figurement of tattoo, 202 : Figian ladies tat too themselves —how the process is performed — tattooed to the bones — how th e aborigine of Australia adorns his body — the "ridge and Chap. VIII. — Story -telling among the Caffres, 177 ; The Autful Hare— the wo man who longed for the liver of a niamatsane — her husband reasons with her to no pur pose — he goes hunting niamatsanes and brings one home — she eats the liver — un satiable thirst the consequence — she drinks the lake dry — who did it? — the jerboa wrongly accused by the artful hare — the artful hare's alliance with the lion — failure of a promising "dodge" — the artful hare compelled to a decent life, 180 ; The Magic Leg and the Mystery Bird — Macilo and Maciloniane — the brothers set out to seek their fortune — they part company — the ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.

IX furrow" pattern — a Port Essington swell, 204 ; face-painting among the North-Ameri can Indians — a "three-faced" savage — a Pawnee dandy — his coiffure — an hour before the looking-glass, 206 ; Sioux manner of face-painting — violent contrasts admired — symbolism in the use of colours, 208 ; savage method of dressing hair — Figian modes — the "counsellors'-wig" style — the "paint brush" — the "pyramid" a head of hair five feet in circumference— the indispensable head seratehcr, 210; hair-dressing in Abyssinia* — heads dressed with butter — a skewer for scratching purposes — curious law respecting soldierly heads of hair — a pat of butter on the top of the head, 211 ; personal decora tion in Africa — the African and the looking glass — the head-dress of a lady of Londa — knocking out the teeth to improve the ap pearance, 212; objection of African savages to have perfect rows of teeth "like oxen" — how to cure a biting wife, 213; how the Malagasey dress their hair, 214. ox of the nurse" — paying for a wife by in stalments — throwing the necklace over the wall — difficulty of getting the bride home, 237 ; Caffre women favourable to polygamy — the old lady who went to look after her hus band's youngest wife — high price of wives among the Amakorer— ten oxen each — the commodity much cheaper in the interior, 23S ; a Caffre abduction case — the evidence of plaintiff and defendant — verdict for plaintiff — the wicked old schelms — the pin-money of a Caffre wife — wife-snatching in Caffre land, 239 ; the marriage laws that regulate New Zealand husbands — the savage man eating New Zealander shockingly henpecked — how the savage in question obtains a wife — all fair in love and war, 240 — fighting for a bride — damages claimed, 242 ; wife-snatching among the Towkans of Central America — the rag of betrothal — a young lady of twenty "beads" — preparations for a wedding — a boat-full of palm-wine — the village "wedding-ring" — the bridal hut — the bridegroom and his relations visit the bride's hut — the ob durate fair — music hath charms — the bundle of presents opened and exposed— yielding of the besieged — the bride captured and run away with — the pursuit— the village "wedding-ring" gained and pursuit defied, 245; a Towkan wedding carousal — the wine-boat emptied to the last drop — the winding-up dance, 246 ; wife-matching in the Bush — the weakness of wooing eschewed by the matter-of-fact Bushman — how a Bushman *beau "makes up" to the damsel of his choice — barbarous treatment of the very young and very old among Bush tribes, 247 ; the woo ings and weddings of the Dayaks of Borneo — "Be good enough to blow up the fire" — marriages among the Sea Dayaks — Blah pinang — simple system of divorce among the Sea Dayaks, 249 ; the Balan wife's token of divorce— stories of devoted Balan husbands — of Ijan the chief — of the boatman of Tanah Putlh— of the brave Si Tundo, 252 ; propitiating a father-in-law with honey and butter— strange superstition prevalent

in Tigre — the marriage " dass" — the guests and the order of their arrival — what the marriage feast consisted of — unceremonious behaviour towards the bride — the "arkees" or brides men — the equestrian bridegroom — the crook ing of fingers — felopious proceedings of "arkees" — their impudent denials, 258; matrimony at Fernando Po — marriage of the daughter of the King of Issapoo — His Ma jesty's kitchen — preparing a Fernando Po bridegroom — the charm of the yam and par rot's feather — the bride — the negro race re ported to blush blue — the "Nepee" — a chant in celebration of the bride's virtues — " if Nepee only knew the truth," 261 ; grand- Chap. X. — The courtship and marriage of a savage — domestic life of Ojibbeway wo men — work like horses — real condition of "prairie-flowers," 217; how the Australian Bushman treats his "Gin" — women in Figi — beauties at a discount — "my wife is not pretty, but she is tough as tortoiseshell " — hogs and women of the same value in the Figian market — evils of Figian polygamy, 219 ; the Makololo women— their inclination to the cup that does inebriate — five strings to her "beau"— the tyranny of African mothers in-law, 220 ; easy condition of Damara wo men, 221 ; the laws of matrimony in Figi — fate of Figian bachelors — Figian marriage contract — the Veidomoni, the Vakamamaka, and the Vakatakata — keeping a bride from the sun to improve her complexion — the marriage feast — the " clipping" — the King of Lakemba's way of ruling his wives, 224 ; marriage of King Finow's daughter — the feast and a scramble for baked pork, 227 ; concerning love letters— the art of writing a mystery to the savage — the "talking paper" that betrayed the thief of the cocoa-nuts — King Finow's puzzle— a savage monarch's first writing lesson — "put me down" — "Tarky blind of an eye," 231 ; courtship and marriage among the cannibal Fans of Equa torial Africa — bargaining for a bride — three brass pans, a string of beads, and an elephant'6 tusk, the price of a wife — a cannibal wedding, 232 ; borrowing the trousers — marriage cus toms of the Mandingoes — sharpening the teeth preparatory to the wedding, 234.

Chap. XI. — Caffre weddings — the bride's purchase-money — cattle as a dowry — "the ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS. X Mr. Turner defends the Samoan against the charge of cannibalism, 291 ; important evi dence on the other side— iron kettles stall m existence in which bodies were cooked, 29,. , the narrow escape of Pickering— the can nibalism of Equatorial Africa, 294 ; approaching a cannibal village— a cave strewn with human hones— heads claimed for the king's table— the grave robbed to gratify the horrible propensity— the cannibals fine stalwart fellows, 296 ; the origin of the bread-fruit tree— forests of "bread"— the bread-fruit crop, 298; mandiocca the "staff of life" among the Indians of Rio Negro tapioca extracted from the mandiocca, 299; description of a great Figian feast — tons of baked taro and yams — pyramids of roast pork — a pudding twenty-one feet in circum ference — the food carvers and the master of the feast — hospitality to strangers, 301 ; the rat eaten by the Figian — the rat hunt and how it is conducted — the weapons and the bait — the road tabooed, 303 ; the Figians as fishermen — how they fish for turtle — dangers of turtle fishing, 305 ; turtle hunting among the Mosquito Indians — shocking cruelty practised in the tortoise-shell trade — description of a Mosquito turtle hunt, 308 ; jumping for turtle— recipes from a savage's cookery book— for roast pig — for cocoa-nut soup — Too talo soup, 311 ; meal times in New Zealand — the "grumbling months," 313; resolution of New Zealand chiefs to adopt European customs — New Zealand feasts — the hakari, 314 ; how fire was intro duced into Samoa — Mafuie the god of fire, and Ti-iti-i — back to Patagonia — a Pata gonian dinner party — the festive board and the guests — a suspicious roast — "Why don't you eat, man ?

" 318 ; how the native African keeps the pot boiling — the palm-tree the Indian's tree of life — meat, drink, clothes, and shelter — how palm-wine is collected, 320 ; some particulars of the palm-oil trade — a fortune in three years, or death, 321 ; the Ce or butter tree— its many uses, 322. mama priests — the marriage procession and the bridesmaids— theceremony — the marriage gifts — the "widow's mite," 262; the Bene dicts of Savage North America — advantages of polygamy to these Indians — daughters for sale — North- American Indian "love charms" "spells," and "philters" — the doll of love — how to punish a fickle sweetheart, 264 ; the cunning Menaboju — the old love and the new, 266; courtship among the Patagonians — how the young Patagonian came to woo — ask papa — papa a decided griffin — per severance carries the day, 268.