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not settled on the spot, they refuse to speak to each other; but if after 
awhile one desires to open friendly relations, he offers to pay the other 
man a certain amount of shell-money. If this offer is accepted they ex- 
change moneys, not necessarily in equal amounts, and perfect friendship is 
‘restored. These feuds are sometimes of larger dimensions, including whole 
villages. When I was on the reservation I tried in vain to hire a member 
of the Hosler village to accompany me to the Tishtanatan village; the 
two villages were at enmity. 
Murder is generally compounded for by the payment of shell-money. 
Judge Rosborough states that payment is not demanded until the first full 
moon after the murder. Then the demand is presented by a third party. 
If the money is paid at once the affair is amicably settled and is never 
alluded to again. 
There is a singular punishment for adultery when committed by a 
Benedick. One of his eyes is pricked so that the ball gradually wastes 
away by extravasation. ‘The Hupa appear to be ashamed of this nowadays, 
and I never found but one of them who would admit it. All the rest 
explained the large number of one-eyed men in the tribe by saying that 
they lost their eyes when children by carelessness in shooting arrows at each 
other by way of youthful practice. On the testimony of this one Indian 
and of two or three white men who have lived among them, I have ven- 
tured to state the above custom as a fact. 
The wife is never punished for adultery except by the husband. The 
woman seems to be regarded as not responsible for her misdeeds, as the 
southern slaves used to be. 
They have the same shell aristocracy as the Karok, the amount paid 
for the wife determining her rank in society. 
Notwithstanding their gross immorality, the lot of a bastard is a hard 
one. He is called kin’-ai-kil, which the Indians translate ‘‘slave”, but which 
might perhaps better be rendered “ward”. The unhappy mother of a bastard 
has not even the consolation left to Hester Prynne, whose child remained 
her own. As soon as it is old enough it is taken from her, and becomes 
the property of some one of her male relatives. Though not condemned 
to absolute slavery, the kinaikil has no privileges with the family. All his 
