** Anthropology : Social 



witchcraft ordeals) with a minimum of interference on the part 

 of Kuropean civilisation, a minimum introduction of European 

 clothing, theology, hypocrisy, and daily labour, these people 

 might arrive at the leading of a life of great material 

 happiness. But to them, as to us, death must come in due 



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course, and death still seems to them an outrage, an unnatural 

 breach of continuity. 



Nearly all these people, except those who have become 

 sincere Muhammadans, consider death to be t{ unnatural " if it 

 occurs after puberty, in child-birth, or from any wild beast, or 

 sudden accident or particularly rapid disease. However it 

 comes, death is greeted with as keen a sorrow as amongst other 

 races of men, and the nature of these people being much more 

 frank and open, their sorrow is displayed to all in public, not 



