lipuns tattooing is practiced upon wrists, etc., but it is a 
privilege of nobility. 
The Amias bury in waste ground, the corpse facing the 
west ; they erect a wooden slab over the spot, and each 
mourner throws a handful of earth at the grave, and spits at 
It, repeating a formula telling the dead man that he has been 
properly treated, and had better stay quietly where he is, or, 
should become back, he will be stoned and spit upon. 
All the natives are full of superstitions about goblins, etc. 
1 hey believe that thunder is made by the male divinity 
throwing things about, and that the lightning is caused by 
the female uncovering herself. A female uncovers herself if 
she IS evincing the utmost scorn. Some of their stones are 
about animals assuming human forms. 
The Koahuts (a tribe of Paiwans) build neat houses of 
bamboo covered with straw. The southern Paiwans of Tiera- 
sock construct huts of sun-dried bricks, and cover them with 
thatch. The coast Paiwans are cleanly; they wash and scrub 
all utensils with sand every morning, and they eat their food 
with spoons made from a pearly shell. The Tipuns and 
Amias are scarcely so well housed, nor are they as clean. A 
Tipun chooses a tree as the centre of his house, and builds 
around it an irregular hut with partitions. The Tipuns have 
no tables or spoons; they squat on a billet of wood and dip 
their hands into a common dish. But the wild Paiwans of the 
mountains live in a hole dug upon a hillside, and fronted 
with slabs of slate. When it becomes too filthy to be longer 
endurable they dig a new hole. 
The irrigation practiced by the Chinese has doubtless in- 
jured various creeks and harbors, but the island seems to be 
rising. Anping was an island at the time of the Dutch, but is 
now joined to the mainland; and an anchor has at another 
spot been found several feet below ground. 
It does not seem that any of the tribes now practice 
cannabahsm but the coast Paiwans accuse their brethren of 
the hills, and tell a story of a chief of the Diaramocks who 
chiefTokotok, who aimed to unite all Formosans 
Africa.— The Zambezi-Congo Region.— Rev. F. S. 
Arnot {Proc. Geog. Soc, London, 1889. n) gives an account 
of his journey from Natal in search of an elevated spot upon 
the water-parting between the Zambezi and the Congo, suit- 
