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really the teaching and condemnation of heathenism—compelling 
the many to be slaves for ever; whilst the favoured few are to 
enjoy all good things. And this by a supposed Divine appoint- 
ment! In India this notion has, through the astute intellect of 
their sages, developed into the iron system of caste. 
In the Pacific, as elsewhere, sometimes the offspring of a slave 
woman married to a high chief inherits the father’s titles and 
power. 
The word “unga” in Rarotongan also signifies ‘ hermit-crab.” 
Some of the younger natives imagine when using the word “unga” 
in the sense of “slave,” that there is a sly allusion to the well- 
known habits of the hermit-crab—the slave living in a home 
belonging to another! But the elder natives were too accurate 
observers to overlook the important circumstance that the hermit- 
crab appropriates the forsaken shell of another, whereas the slave 
enjoys the protection of the land-owner or chief, to whom he 
owns allegiance and service. I regard this explanation as 
extremely modern, although very ingenious. 
No. 12.—TAHITIAN AND HAWAIIAN TATTOOING. 
By Miss Treurra Henry. 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898.) 
No 13.—BLACK, RED, AND WHITE, AS SYMBOLS. 
By Joun Fraser, B.A., LL.D. 
(Read Monday, January 10, 1898.) 
