680 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 



54. Timin, a man or a woman's father. See father. 



55. Tini (Kw.) See child. 



56. To'nana (An.) See father-in-law. 



57. Tiipun, a man's grandfather or mother. See grand- 



father. 



58. TujKina (An.) See grandfather. 



59. Uhun, mother-in-law, the sister of one's father, the wife 



of the brother of one's mother. See aunt, mother- 

 in-law. 



60. Un, father-in-law, the brother of one's mother, the 



husband of the sister of one's father. See father-in- 

 law. 



61. Yafuni or Yafweni (Kw.) See brother-in-law. 



62. Yakut! (Kw.) The child (male or female) of a woman. 



See child. 



63. Yamati (Kw.) The son of a man. See child, 



64. Yuma, my mother. See mother. 



6.— NOTES ON THE LOYALTY ISLANDS. 



By REV. S. M. CREAGH. 



At the Isle of Pines, which is near the southern end of New 

 Caledonia, but is not in the Loyalty Group, the people 

 ])ractice i?icision. In the Loyalty Islands they had a prac- 

 tice which can neither be called circumcision nor i/?cision ; 

 young men before marriage, and as a preparation thereto, 

 were accustomed to separate the prepuce from the glans penis 

 by severing the frenum preputii ; this was done by piercing 

 the f.p. close to the g.p. with a thorn from the orange tree, 

 and inserting a string which was tied tightly to stop the 

 circulation, and in a few days the separation would be effected 

 without any further trouble ; this was done to prevent, as 

 they supposed, any evil consequences. Since the introduction 

 of the Gospel the natives have of themselves discontinued 

 the custom. 



There are no marriage laws ; it was, however, the custom 

 in certain cases to betroth a child as soon as it was born to 

 some man or boy of importance. Property was given to the 

 father of the child by the friends of her intended husband ; 

 in due time, when the state of puberty had arrived, the girl 

 was taken to the home of her future husband ; no marriage 

 ceremony took place, but property was again given to the 



