CHAPTER XVI 
BURIAL, WITCHCRAFT, AND OTHER 
THEMES 
A Short-lived Race—An Aged Mana Curiosity—Burial Customs 
—The Chief Mourner painted Black—Period of Mourning brief 
except for the Chief Mourner—No Belief in Natural Death 
—Poison always Suspected—Religion all but absent—Vague 
Belief in Magic—Fifi a Form of Divination—How practised—Its 
Utter Childishness—No Idea of Number—Forest Warnings— 
““Wada,” another Form of Sorcery—Mavai’s Hideous Magical 
Compounds—A People seemingly without History or Legends 
—Pictures understood—Fear of the Stereoscope—The “ Bau- 
bau” or Social Pipe—How Made and Smoked—Incidents of 
Travel—The Stinging Trees—Ideas of Medicine—Sovereign 
Remedies—Bleeding—How practised—Hunting—The Corral— 
A Strange Delicacy—Story of Native Trust in Me—A Loan of 
Beads—Children and their Sports—Thirty Ways of Cat’s- 
Cradle. 
