LIFE HISTORY OF A SAVAGE, 781 
When Tepang first sought admission he became a “ tena-mana” 
or candidate, and certain fees were paid, then he and his fellow- 
candidates were put through an elaborate system of fooling, and 
had to suffer some actual pain in their supposed search for the 
Dukduk. After passing through the preliminary fooling they 
became “tena-wanai” or apprentices, and had a little more 
insight given them, and then, after a while, they became “ tena- 
maul,” or fully accredited members, and learnt all the secrets. 
These were principally how to prepare the dresses, what to say, 
how to dance, and what were the restrictions as to food and 
conduct whilst the mysteries were engaged in, and above all how 
money was to be made and food procured from other people by 
the fear inspired by the Dukduk. It must be said, however, that 
this association had its own sphere of usefulness in a state of 
society such as existed in Tepang’s birthplace, where there were 
few chiefs of sufficient power to compel any obedience to law or 
to enforce punishment against a transgression except by the aid 
of such a society as the Dukduk. 
As Tepang grew up and either found money himself or was 
provided with it by his friends, he was initiated into other 
societies, all more or less secret. In one he was taught how to 
curse his enemies in the most telling manner ; in another, how to 
prepare love philters for his own use, or for the use of those who 
paid him for them; in another, he’ was shown the secrets of 
* Agagara” or witchcraft, and taught how easy it was to make 
aman sicken and die just as he pleased. He was taught how to 
make new dances and how profitably he could sell them to other 
towns. He also became a member of the Iniat Society, and after 
the months which were passed in the ceremonies of his initiations 
were completed he could never again eat pork, shark, dog, or 
turtle,sand he always had to have his food cooked in a separate 
oven for fear of contamination from any of those forbidden 
delicacies. From all which it will be seen that it is a great 
mistake to imagine that a young manin Tepang’s position had no 
duties or responsibilities such as we have here, that he had 
nothing to do but eat, sleep, and be merry, or that he had no 
taxes to pay or any public duties to perform. 
HIS MARRIAGE. 
It is, however, quite time that I said something about my friend’s 
marriage. People in New Britain marry as they do in other 
places but they are not “given” in marriage, for there is always 
payment made and received. There is, indeed, a fine distinction 
in their language with regard to the preposition used, as a man 
marries “ with” the woman, but the woman marries “to” the 
man. When Tepang, like other young men, thought it was 
