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5. Woman not cooking food for man's visitors. 



6. Adulteiy on woman's part. 



7. Woman talking veiy loudly in man's village when strangers 



are present. 



8. Woman rattling the spatula loudly as she takes lime from 



the gourd when the man's elders are present. 



9. Man not fishing or not helping to provide other food for the 



children. 



10. Man too lazy to join trading expeditions. 



11. Breaking etiquette in each, other's village. 



12. Entering house in spouse's village when owner of house is 



absent. 



13. Man or his relatives making use of wife's relative's canoe 



without permission. 



14. Climbing on platform of spouse's elder while the elder is 



seated on the ground. 



15. Man thrashing his wife in the sight of her relatives. 



16. Severely thrashing wife in the man's village. She cries and 



complains to her friends. 



17. Filthy language. 



18. Calling by the name orphan or bastard, and saying that 



either party has no food. 



19. Saying "Ugly mouth," '"'Ulcerous mouth." 



20. Calling each other old. It is an insult for a husband to tell 



his wife that she was born before him, and so for the 

 woman to say so to her husband. 



21. Saying, "Your ears are thick and stuffed up. What did 



your mother ever teach you ?" 



22. Woman not cooking food properly. 



INFANTICIDE. 



Mode. — 1. Putting foot on the throat. 2. Choking with hands. 3. 

 Burying alive wath deceased mother. The first Dobuan saved from 

 this custom was a male child, whom Mrs. Bromilow persuaded the 

 natives not to bury. The relations refused to nurse him, so he was 

 brought up in our home, and is now fifteen years of age. 4. Leaving 

 child on beach in the sun. 5. Eefusing to suckle the child. 



Occasions of Irifanticide. — 1. Birth of twins. One twin is killed 

 because of the great trouble in nursing. Generally the female child is 

 piesei-ved because of descent. Tout if the mother has no male child to 

 climb cocoanut trees for her she may ask for the female to be killed. 

 A case was mentioned in which both female children were kept alive. 

 Triplets are apparently not known. When we asked some old men 

 if they knew of triplets they laughed boisterously over the very idea 

 of such a thing happening. 



2. Bastards are sometimes killed. A woman was taunted about 

 her bastard child, whereupon she put him in the sun to die, and finally 

 poured salt water into his mouth. A^'hen I asked her why, she said 

 .she could not bear the taunting. 



3. The mother dying while the child is too young to run about. 



4. After compulsory marriage. Sometimes a mother will force 

 her daughter to marry against her will. Thrashing, scalding with hot 



