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the women dip their finger in the liquor, and then salute as before 

 stated. 



The Bunzoo food consists of rice, fruit, roots, vegetables, young leaves 

 of trees, blochein, (which is prepared by the Mugs of Rangunia of 

 shrimps salted and pounded,) and deer, hogs, fowls and goats. The 

 Bunzoos admit the existence of a Supreme Being whom they do not 

 worship, the reason being that "they have never heard about him nor 

 seen him ;" but it is not the same with the devil, whom they consider as 

 the cause of all evil, — to him they attribute their diseases, the failure of 

 their crops, &c, and to gain his favour they offer him pigs, goats, 

 fowls, &c. ; they believe in a place of torment, but what are the 

 offences that deserve such punishment they don't know; they think 

 that the greatest part of the dead come again into the world to 

 animate other bodies, and persons who have been fortunate enough 

 to secure the head of many wild animals are entitled to be re- 

 warded in their future life : this is the reason for which they keep 

 with the greatest care the heads of animals slain by them. The 

 Rookies burn the dead, the Bunzoos do not. They hollow a piece 

 of wood, deposit the dead in it, and bury it in the summit of some 

 hill, putting in the same grave the heads of animals killed by them, 

 spears, cloth, and money belonging to the deceased. On the Tenasse- 

 rim coast the Kareans burn the dead, and keep one of the bones 

 of the head for one year, and after feasting for some days, they 

 take it with all the articles belonging to the deceased, on a hill 

 where all articles are deposited which belonged to persons of the 

 same caste. The Bunzoos never marry to persons of another tribe, 

 and a wedding never takes place without spending much money. The 

 father and mother of the young man apply for the bride, which is 

 never promised unless she give her consent ; should the young man be 

 without parents the head of the village is to ask the bride's hand, the 

 relations of the lady ask then a sum of money, from one hundred to 

 one hundred and fifty rupees ; if the young man has that money he pays 

 it immediately ; but if he has not, the bride's relations agree to receive 

 it by instalments. The day of marriage being fixed, a feast is given to 

 the relations and friends, and the young woman is taken by them to 

 the house of the bridegroom, and without any further ceremony, the 

 maid becomes wife. They have but one wife, and if she leaves her 



