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the wife's adultery the offending man must pay a fine to her 

 parents. 



In Great Sangir if a man lives with another man's wife 

 he must pay the husband the full harta ; but if he is unable 

 to do this, and his friends wUl not help him, then both he 

 and the woman become the slaves of the husband. The 

 only persons who are free from the matriarchal system are 

 the sons of the rajahs, who do as they please about following 

 their wives. 



The dignity of rajah passes from father to son, but not 

 necessarily to the eldest son. If, for example, there are three 

 legitimate sons, the people are called together and the most 

 fitting son is chosen as the future rajah. 



Property is inherited communally by the children (14). 



On the death of a rajah the body is placed in a coffin, 

 but is not buried at once. For some days it is watched by 

 a number of young maidens of good family, and all the 

 people put on black garments and exhibit other signs of 

 mourning. A great feast is also held, and the days are 

 passed in eating and drinking and frolic of different kinds. 

 At last the body is placed in an outer coffin, and carried to 

 the grave with considerable ceremony. 



Murder and homicide were formerly punished in Man- 

 ganitu by death, the form of death being the same as that 

 of the deed. In other parts the death punishment was by 

 hanging to a gallows. Small thefts were punished by fines, 

 or by cutting off the fingers, or by flogging with a rattan 

 cane, and the punishment for incest was drowning, the vic- 

 tim being thrown into the sea with a stone tied round his 

 neck. 



The Sangirese have been from time immemorial a hardy 

 and fearless race of mariners, as might be expected from the 

 insular nature of their country. Their forests abounding 

 in excellent timber for shipbuilding, they construct not 



