706 Proceedings of section g. 



she has food and shelter. On his promising to that effect 

 the pigs are handed over, and the women take the food, 

 yams, &c. he has provided, and return home. 



Polygamy is practised, but not very largely. It is not 

 restricted. 



Children follow the mother's kin, and take the side of her 

 tribe in M^ar, even although they may live in another 

 village. 



Brothers and sisters are very chaste in their intercourse. 

 Any violation of this, or intercourse with unclean women is 

 supposed to be punished by the man becoming afflicted with 

 a sort o^ gravel (nieme menrikenrik), a dribbling of wind. 



A married woman has the heavy share of the work — the 

 preparing of plantations and the cultivation of food. She 

 also carries all the food and firewood, and carries all the 

 loads of food for barter to different villages. Women are 

 not cruelly used ; bow they fare depends on their own 

 exertions in cultivation, gathering shell-fish, and cooking. 

 They can take food and come to the trader to get calico or 

 matches for their own use. They also prepare mats and 

 thatch for the houses. 



The husbands are very jealous and suspicious. No woman 

 here goes inside a trader's fence, because he is unmarried, 

 nor would they approach the house of the celibate Roman 

 Catholic clergy who resided here for a time. They come 

 about us quite freely, because of my wife's presence. 



The Tribe. 



The tribe with us is really the village or collection of 

 villages adjoining each other. 



There is generally one chief. His position is to some 

 extent hereditary, but the son does not always succeed to his 

 father's rank ; e.g., Maramulamut, the high chief of Asang, 

 died and was succeeded by his son Mulan who, however, must 

 make the necessary Mangkeas before he can become a Mara 

 like his father. In this case, as he is a worthless, lazy fellow, 

 it is not likely that he will succeed. Chiefs' sons rise more 

 quickly through the grades than others, as their fathers are 

 able to provide the necessary pigs. 



There seems to be no council, except that the men discuss 

 all matters. 



Social and Domestic. 



I think I described them fully in a former paper. 



