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and streaks bim witli the blood of a cock; and' 

 also streaks the bride with the blood of a hen, 

 When the blood spreads too wide^ it isreckoioed 

 a bad omen. The parties then join their bloody 

 hands, and the ceremony coneludes with another 

 fèast. 



Ifaman's wife die^ he is not permitted to 

 ïïiake proposals of marriage to another, till he 

 baa provided another head of a different tribe^. 

 as if to revenge the death of his deceased Wife. 

 The heads procured io this manner they preserve 

 yvhh great care, and sonaetimcs consult in divi* 

 nation. The reiigious opiaions connected with. 

 this practice are hy no means correctly iinder- 

 stood. Some assert that they b lieve that every 

 person whora a man kills in this world, becomes 

 bis slave in the next. The Idaan, it is said, 



thuik, that the entrance into Paradise is over a 



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ionff: tree which serves for a bridge, over which 

 it is impossible to pass without the assistince of 

 a slave slain in this world. Some of. the Idaau 

 of the North reckon Paradise to be $ituated at 

 the top of Kinibelu, and guarded by afiery dog^ 

 that seiïes on all virguxs as they attempt to pass. 



The Tdaans are reiigious observers of oath3. 

 They have a reiigious foriu likewise, by whicU. 



