112 R. H. MATHEWS. 



It was stated in an earlier page that although a man can 

 have but one actual father, yet this father's section name 

 depends upon whom the man's mother had married. A 

 man of any given section may therefore have four different 

 nominal grandfathers. And upon tracing out the genea- 

 logies of several families by the continued assistance of 

 trustworthy correspondents who have resided in that dis- 

 trict for years, I find that there are, so to speak, four sorts 

 of men in each section — for example, there are four Choo- 

 lums of different lineage, whom we shall distinguish as 

 Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. 



Looking at Table IV., and in the left side of it, we see 

 that the father of Ohoolum No. 1 is Palyarin and that 

 Palyarin's direct or " 1st Father " is Ohoolum. Then 

 Olioolum No. 1 marries his father's direct or " 1st Father's " 

 sister's son's daughter Ningulum as his "1st Wife " already 

 described in Table II. Or he marries his father's " 1st 

 Father's" sister's daughter's daughter Neenum as his 

 "2nd Wife." 



If we take Ohoolum No. 2, with another pedigree, still 

 looking at Table IV., then he espouses his father's alter- 

 native or " 2nd Father's" sister's son's daughter Nooralum 

 as his " 1st Wife." Or he takes his father's "2nd Father's" 

 sister's daughter's daughter Noolum as his " 2nd Wife." 



Perusal of Table V., introduces Ohoolum No. 3, whose 

 father's "3rd Father" is Ohingulum, and also Ohoolum 

 No. 4, whose father's " 4th Father " is Ohooralum, but it 

 is expected that the table will speak for itself. It is 

 manifest, therefore, that whatever one of the four specific 

 women which a man of a given section is allowed to take 

 as a' wife possesses practically the same relationship to 

 him, although through different channels. 



