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amongst the Kola and probably many other tribes in India, and 

 the Baling, Luzonians and other lank haired rac«3 of Indonesia. 

 No sooner has the impatient bridegroom paid one of the customary 

 etaciions, than he is met by another. Thus he mu«t pay the 

 pr ice of the mother's milk, a compensation to ihe parents for feeding, 

 cloihing and training the briflV, anotker to the mother for the loss 

 of her society, another to dry her tern-p, another to the sisters for 

 Opening the gnte of the kampong, ft bribe to the burgher who 

 watches the township or village boundary to allow her to be carried 

 across it into the bridegroom's, another for the removal of a cloth 

 spread as a barrier between his party and the bride, a gift when 

 tne bride enters the bridegroom's house, another for the bandage 

 of her hair'becnuse it will he unloosed and dishevelled &e. Amongst 

 rir erts, tl,.n huvt- oxistrd from an early period in the region between 

 Tibet and Asianesia, and have been carried to the latier, are different 

 kinds of plaited receptacles, hats, shields, foot bal's ke. of cane 

 and other materials; the numerous cano rings worn round the 

 legs, waist, ke. cane hoddice*, fashions of latooinjj*, blackening the 

 teeth, the eradication of the beard, singular customs allied to Ctr- 

 cumciston, the fashion*, of shields, weapons and oih<-r warlike ac- 

 coutrements, spring bows for "killing wild animal*, the mode of 

 warfare and many usages connected with it, the peculiar mode of 

 talyng and preserving the heads of enemies, ceremonies connected 

 with their reception and usest, loom weaving, dying, some kinds 

 of striped patterns or tartans, articles of dress, iron mining and 

 forging, the great chin or village houses, the separate village balls, 

 domesticated animals,— horses, buffaloes, cows, hogs, dog*, cats. 



The agreement in social and political institution* is great. A- 

 mong^t the former ore the custom of bachelors, and the less widely 

 spread one of girls, occupying a separate common house ; the pro- 

 hibition of marriage between persons of the same clan, — a very ar- 

 chaic institution; for it prevails in America, N.E.Asia, China, in In- 

 dia amongst the Khouds &c. (and originally amongst the Aryaa), in 

 Australia, and amongst the greater number of the Tibeto-Auam 

 tribes of Asianesia; the holding of all land and other inherited pro- 

 perty by the female children, and the reception of the hnsban.l into 

 the wife's clan (Kocch, some of the G iro tribes?, Malays of Me- 

 nangkabau &c,;) many customs connected wikh marriage, the po- 

 sition of the wife, divorce, their consequences, the congregation of 

 a whole village in one long bouse, singular minuteness of tha 



NaiM, heap imny and Insult on the b*ad. p'sca 

 iMtl with it-i place of re^t, " Ii mj, < nil your relatixia 

 n*t aluoe ? eat, ttwo Slc." See Custom* common 

 invmn'Uinnen, sale VoL II p. 2.W. The Ttmo- 

 >l lacerating 'coinbinatton of African and Indian 

 i afford.*. It wo aid alone prove [be two con- 

 nanner. The languages have many T!b*to-lndl*a 



• Ttl P. Xli» t tAta Rati 

 t The TimoreaiiR, like thfl 

 (oo.\ be otv it, ask i; If It is pi 

 ui.'l Itt IhrAn ear, nr will y> 

 to the Indonesian and A*wn 

 rian group preserve* the tt 

 characteristics which ladani 

 nectiani in the most dssUvt 

 as well aa African fcatun* 



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