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are such treated ? Is there any medical treatment adopted? Are 

 there any superstitious or magical practices connected with the treat- 

 ment of the sick? What are the most prevailing forms of disease, 

 whence derived, and to what extent ? Is there any endemic affection, 

 such as goitre, pelagra, plica, or the like ? With what circumstances, 

 situations, and habits do they appear to be connected, and to what are 

 they referred by the people themselves ? 



44. Where there are inferior animals associated with man, do they 

 exhibit any corresponding liability to, or exemption from disease ? 



45. Do entozoa prevail, and of what kind ? 



46. What is the method adopted for the disposal of the dead ? Is 

 it generally adhered to, or subject to variation ? 



47. Are any implements, articles of clothing, or food, deposited with 

 the dead ? 



48. Is there any subsequent visitation of the dead, whether they are 

 disposed of separately, or in conjunction with other bodies ? 



49. What is the received idea respecting a future state ? Does this 

 bear the character of transmigration, invisible existence about their 

 accustomed haunts, or removal to a distant abode ? 



Buildings and Monuments. 



50. What are the kinds of habitations in use among the people ? 

 Are they permanent or fixed ? Do they consist of a single apart- 

 ment, or of several ? Are the dwellings collected into villages or 

 towns, or are they scattered, and nearly or quite single ? If the for- 

 mer, describe any arrangement of them in streets or otherwise which 

 may be employed. 



51. Have any monuments been raised by the present inhabitants 

 or their predecessors, and more especially such as relate to religion or 

 war ? State their character, materials, and construction. If they are 

 still in use amongst the people, state this object, even if they should 

 be of the simplest construction, and be little more than mounds or 

 tumuli. If these monuments are no longer in use, collect, as far as 

 possible, the ideas and traditions of the natives regarding them, and 

 if possible, have them examined by excavation or otherwise, taking 

 care to deface and disturb them as little as possible. 



