484 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 



A FEW NOTES TO SHOW THAT THE DOBUANS ARE CHILDREN 

 OF NATURE EVEN AS OTHERS. 



1. There are harlots. A harlot does not sleep with her mother, 

 and does very little gardening'. She allows anyone to sleep with her 

 tor payment in betelnut, or tobacco. 



2. A single woman, if virtuous, sleeps with her mother. She can 

 receive the ^dsits of lovers, to see whether a betrothal will come out of 

 it or not. 



3. A girl wlio refuses the visits of lovers is taunted by her mother 

 with being *" Nuebora" — an innocent virgin. 



4. A single woman wishing to have connection with a man may : 

 (a) Ask lietelnut of a visitor, (b) Snatch, when passing, an ornament 

 fiom his armlet, or his comb from his hair, or basket out of his hand. 

 (c) Strike him with a stick, or throw a stone at him. (d) Stare at 

 him or put out the tongue, (e) Send a verbal message through a 

 child. (/■) Speak to him familiarly, (gr) Twinkle the eyes, (h) Pinch 

 him. (i) Call him her '' widower," or tell him his wife is no good. 



5. A married woman acting as above must do so secretly. A 

 single woman need not be very secret about it. 



6. A man wishing to visit a woman may adopt the same methods 

 as the woman, or go at night to the woman's house, play the native 

 jaw's harp, and say " Baiobaio ! Open the door that I may climb up." 

 Sometimes a woman will ask a man his intentions before allowing him 

 in. A man will promise a poor woman anything so as to sleep with 

 her. 



The moon is supposed to be a male, and menstruation is caused 

 by liis having connection Avith females at the age of puberty. 



A man is not allowed to have connection with his true or adopted 



sister. 



A man took his niece into the grass in the daylight, and the 

 people to shame him composed a song about it, Avhich they sang at, 

 their dances. 



A woman in open daylight in the centre of a village called upon 

 a visitor to have connection with hei', which he did without their going 

 into a house — the man going off boasting of it. The whole coimtryside 

 rang with the incident, some expressing their shame, others taking 

 the matter as a joke. 



Male prisoners were sti-ipped naked, the T-shaped leaf dress 

 being thrown into the sea, and indecent remarks made. Female 

 prisoners were stripped of iheir i;rass skirts, and tormented by 

 being reminded bv their captors of the times they had connection 

 with their husbands. No captor was allowed to have connection with 

 a female prisoner for fear it would spoil the body for eating. 



]\Ien of strong vitals have been known to wash the vulva, stuff 

 it with bananas, and eat the whole after cooking. The native chiefs 

 who gave me this information wanted me to joke a certain member of 

 the tribe about his proclivities in this direction. 



