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Antarki, who had lately died, on the ground of some 

 real or fancied resemblance to the latter. Now Paouda 

 had taken to wife a daughter of Antarki's, named 

 Domani, and as soon as B. informed him that he was 

 the ghost of Antarki, Paouda at once admitted the re- 

 lationship and acted upon it. For, as all the women 

 on the island had hidden away in fear of the ship, and 

 we were anxious to see what they were like, B. 

 pleaded pathetically with Paouda that it would be very 

 unkind not to let him see his daughter and grandchil- 

 dren. After a good deal of hesitation and the exac- 

 tion of pledges of deep secrecy, Paouda consented to 

 take B., and myself as B.'s friend, to see Domani 

 and the three daughters, by whom B. was received 

 quite as one of the family, while I was courteously 

 welcomed on his account. This scene made an im- 

 pression upon me which is not yet effaced. It left no 

 question on my mind of the sincerity of the strange 

 ghost-theory of these savages, and of the influence 

 which their belief has on their practical life. 1 



For the second, Huxley cites Mariner's Account of 

 the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific 

 Ocean, published in 18 16. When he was quite a 

 youth William Manner joined the Port-au-Prince, a 

 private ship of war commissioned to cruise for prizes 

 in certain latitudes, and, failing success in that, to 

 search for whales. 2 Her fate was to be boarded, 

 plundered, and destroyed by the natives of Lafooga, 

 one of the Tonga islands, where Mariner, to whom 

 Finow, the chief, had taken a fancy, spent four years 



1 Coll. Essays, iv. p. 317, 318. 



2 Introd. to Mariner, i. p. xxv. 



