CHAPTER XI. 



Boundary Lines Public Meetings A Midnight Scene A Funeral The 

 Coyara a Secularist He has Good Teeth Waboota Roboor, and how he 

 got a Wife A Lovely Savage Lohier Tries Match-making, and gives us 

 a Surprise. 



THERE are distinct and well-marked boundary lines 

 between the lands owned by different tribes ; and, 

 when one tribe wishes to communicate with another, 

 they go to the line, where they call, or blow a shell 

 horn, to bring their neighbors within speaking distance. 

 Should a man of one tribe be found on the land belong- 

 ing to another, he is regarded as an enemy, and imme- 

 diately taken prisoner. Permission is often given by a 

 tribe for their neighbors to go through their territory, 

 but always with an escort. When I went out shooting, 

 with a native to carry my birds, I could never get him 

 beyond certain limits : he would tell me that his land 

 went no farther, and that he dared riot go beyond. 



On one occasion, when Shelley and I were out, we 

 decided to go to the town of Boyeruma ; and went 

 across the little river, that divides the two territories, 

 without calling to let the natives know we were com- 

 ing. We walked into town just as the inhabitants 

 were at dinner ; and I should judge there were about 

 one hundred of them sitting on the ground, each with 



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