BURIAL AND WITCHCRAFT 
that they were already more than our masters therein ; 
for they no sooner saw what we were after than they 
let us know that they were well acquainted with it, 
and whereas we had just the old stereotyped process 
to give them, they showed us thirty different ways. 
They did not, however, play in pairs as we do, the 
players taking the string from each other's hands 
in turn, but each child sits by himself or herself and 
works out the pattern. It is really amusing to see 
how they effect the different changes and the regular 
routine of forms by the movement of the fingers alone, 
without the aid of another pair of hands. 
The dogs at Epa and Port Moresby were highly 
favoured animals. Not only had they the run of the 
house, but each house had an entrance sacred to the 
dog. ‘To this access was given by special dog-ladders 
9 inches wide, with the rungs quite a foot apart, up 
and down which the animals ran like monkeys. 
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