66 A NATURALIST IN CANNIBAL LAND 



either bought locally by the Government for the use 

 of the station here, by the Methodist Mission, or by 

 the traders for export to Samarai, Milne Bay, or 

 Woodlark Island." 



I was interested in noticing the great precautions 

 the Trobrianders took to guard their gardens from 

 wild pigs, setting sharpened stakes in the ground so 

 that were a wild pig to break through a gap in the 

 fence he would become impaled on the stakes. They 

 had also a sort of bell made of a shell with a stone 

 inside, which hung on branches and gave warning 

 to the gardener of the passage of any animal into his 

 grounds. 



The big chief of the Trobriands at that time was 

 named Enumakali. He had thirty-six wives and 

 occupied a village all to himself. The other villages 

 around paid to him tribute. Whenever he went on 

 a voyage travellers ran before him to give warning 

 to the villages, and in any village he was going to visit 

 a stage was set up. There he would stop and hold a 

 council. The natives would crouch before him when 

 they approached his presence. This ceremonial still 

 survives in the Trobriands, and the British authorities 

 had amusing trouble the other day when they had to 

 put a Trobriand chief named Toulu into gaol for 

 practising sorcery. 



There were about a dozen other prisoners in gaol 

 at the time. " I was considerably surprised " (records 

 the magistrate for the district), " on visiting the gang 



