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grimaces. Why ? To frighten the ghost of the dead Itana, that 

 he may not venture to injure them. Quickly the women are 

 pushed aside, four persons seize the corpse and run with it to the 

 grave, followed by the rest at some distance. On the way others 

 relieve the first, proceeding rapidly onward. Arriving at the 

 grave, one of the men jumps in, the bearers bend the limbs of the 

 corpse against the belly, and hand it down to the man. The 

 latter places it in the side chamber on its side, with the face di- 

 rected towards the tmara altjira ; the opening of the chamber is 

 then closed with brushwood, and the grave tilled up with earth. 

 The body is placed in the side chamber so that no weight may 

 oppress it, and induce the Itana to injure the relations, or remove 

 itself quickly to the tmara altjira. Over the main hole of the 

 grave a small mound is raised, and within a radius of several 

 paces all bushes, wood, stones, and grass are most carefully re- 

 moved. Why ? That the ghost, Itana, may not find his w^ay 

 readily and hurry ofi* to his tmara altjira. Everything is done in 

 a furious haste, and when completed they return to their tmara 

 and continue the lamentations. Soon after the hut of the departed 

 is burnt down, with all his earthly possessions, that the Itana may 

 not return and injure his kin or other persons. Moreover, the 

 camp is shifted at once to another place for fear of the Itana. 

 Next morning the nearest relations leave the camp for some 

 weeks to forget their sorrow, or, perhaps, from fear. The next 

 thing done is to smear the body with white earth — the women all 

 over, the men only the face and chest — and to cut off the hair, in 

 order to make themselves unrecognisable to the liana ; and is so 

 effiective that they are not readily recognisable at first. As long 

 as the near relations are absent, little mourning and lamenting is 

 indulged in, but as soon as they appear the mournful cries are 

 renewed. Some days after, a number of the natives go to the 

 grave very early in the morning to raise their lamentation there, 

 place brushwood and bones upon it, and sprinkle it with water to 

 satisfy Itana, and to induce him to consider that his dwelling, and 

 inflict no evil. Finally white earth is placed upon or sprinkled 

 over the grave that they may soon forget the dead one, whose 

 name, indeed, is never mentioned again for fear he might hear it 

 and do some injury. If others arrive from afar, they go first to 

 the mourners and sit down with them, the women behind the 

 men, the men behind the women, and those of the same sex be- 

 side or before each other, and show their sympathy with them by 

 crying and lamenting for a while. When information is received 

 that a man has been speared, or a man or a woman killed, etc., 

 weeping, lamenting, and shouting at once begins. Sucli a dead 

 person is buried by the finder, and the wife or wives are married 

 by the brother next following in age. He does not assume an 



