CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I.- 



CH AFTER II.- 



CHAPTER III.- 



CHAPTER IV.- 



CHAPTER V.- 



CHAPTER VI.- 



CHAPTER VII.- 



CHAPTER VIII.—; 

 CHAPTER IX.- 



CHAPTER X.- 

 CHAPTER XI.- 



CHAPTER XII.- 

 CHAPTER XIII.- 

 CHAPTER XIV.- 



Tribes : their names, boundaries, languages, and dialects ... 



Population. 



Chiefs : their power, dignity, and succession ... 



Property : of the family, laws of, inlieritance ... 



■Clothing : men's, women's, at night, adoption of European 

 clothing, rugs — how made ... 



Habitations : permanent, temporary 



Cleanliness : superstition relative to, the muurong pole, 

 parasites 



Domestic Furniture : baskets for carrying and for cooking, 

 wooden bowl, bark bucket, water bags, water troughs, 

 mortars, means of producing fire 



Cooking and Food : ovens, roasting, animals eaten, shell- 

 fish, roots and vegetables, grubs, gum, manna, 

 drinking water, fi-uits, division of the spoils of 

 hunting, story of the Selfish Fellow 



-Tools : stone axe, stone chisel, scrapers, x'asp, mortar and 

 pestle, bone chisel and bodkin, knives ... 



-Laws of Marriage : tribal, class, origin of classes, other 

 relations, polygamy, rank, re-mamage of widows, 

 consent of chiefs, strictness of laws, betrothal, mothers- 

 in-law, " turn-tongue," initiation into manhood, 

 man-iage-dress and ceremonies, first two months, 

 divorce, selection of wives, gifts of wives, dissolution 

 of marriage, spells, treatment of wives ... 



-Children : birth, nursing, clothing, kiUing the weak, 

 language, strange law relative to language 



-Names of Persons : naming of children, changing names, 

 the efiect of death on names, lists of names 



-Superstitions and Diseases : supernatural beings, celestial, 

 infernal and terrestrial, ghosts, wraiths, shades, 

 haunted cave, witches, dreams, superstitions relative 

 to animals, etc. ; fires, spells, sorcerers, " White 

 Lady," doctors, common remedies, supernatural reme- 

 dies, and artifices, sorcery stones, sunstroke, moon- 

 stroke, pulmonary complaints, epidemics, other diseases 



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