646 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
Kuriwalu. Extend the hand and shake it, then touch the 
mouth and throat. Oc7rig. 
Where? What? Who? What ts it? &c.—Hold the right hand 
opposite the left breast, palm downwards, then move the 
hand upwards and outwards higher than the shoulder, 
gradually turning the hand so that at last the palm is 
upwards; or do this so that the movement of the hand 
upwards and forwards only brings it level with the face. 
Yantruwunta. Place right hand at left breast, palm out- 
wards, then move it up at an angle of 45 deg. with the 
horizon hold up for a moment, and let drop ; when moving 
the hand also jerk up the chin. Uvunjert. Throw up the 
hand higher than the head, then let it fall, palm upwards. 
Dierit Gason. 
Water—Same as “thirsty.” Orrig. Same as “to drink.” 
Diert Vogelsang. 
Woman.—Point with the finger of the right hand to the breast. 
Urunjeri. Indicate the breasts with both hands. Dvzert 
Vogelsang. Make a circle with the forefinger of each ‘hand 
round the breast. Dyzert Gason. 
Yes.—Nod the head. Uvrunjeri; Dieri ; Oirig. Make a move- 
ment with the open hand towards the ground. <A/do- 
linga. 
10.—ON CERTAIN MUTILATIONS PRACTISED BY 
NATIVES OF THE VITI ISLANDS. 
By Boron 8. Cornry, Chief Medical Officer, Colony of Fiji. 
THERE are one or two mutilations commonly practised by natives 
of the Vit1 Islands, which, if they have been invested with a 
measure of importance, viewed from a medical standpoint, to 
which they have but slight claim, possess nevertheless a degree of 
anthropological interest which may warrant their being described 
and recorded in the presence of an Association for the advance- 
ment of science. 
The more noteworthy of these, because the most commonly 
resorted to, and also the most “heroic,” is that designated in the 
native language THoxKa Lost. It consists in passing a bougie or 
sound into the male urethra as far as the membranous portion, 
and in making an incision about an inch in length upon it from 
without at the bulbous portion. A seton may or may not then 
be passed in at the wound and out at the meatus, according to 
the whim of the operator. 
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