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eee a grave is neatly dug, round but not very deep, and a 
inend goes down into it and tries if itis suitable. The body in 
the meantime has, while warm, been made into the form of a ball, 
_ knees to chin, and tied up in bark ; it is brought to the grave, 
but before it is lowered into it, a wizard, standing by, questions 
the and asks him who caused his death, and so on, to 
forthe dead is continued for three or four month ; the relatives, 
tine and at night raise loud yells and cut their heads with toma- 
hawks or knives ; the streaming blood is left to dry there. _ 
Elsewhere the grave is like ours in shape, and the body is laid in 
fat, on a sheet of bark ; above the body is another sheet of bark 
and the grass, logs, and earth, the earth on the surface being 
; it; this the 
with devices, but another grave is dug and no body pies ms 
BY 
.. Wander about, revisit the grave, interview the miurups of 
re Ning friends in dreams, eat up the remains of food left lying 
wen Warm itself at the night fires. Thus, when Buckley 
tos, ting on a grave witha broken spear in his a edy.” , 
regarded as a méiriip come back to visit his body. o 
rep Ques Analogous to this is found among the blacks ot 
’ Guinea, When a man dies, they ascribe his decease to th 
—__Nents ofan enemy. At the grave they ask the corpse 
"hss they show their belief in a life after death, as many other nations 
