POET DORY. 
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geBerally named as the successor of tbe deceased, and is 
presented with a yellow kabaya, drawers, and lieadker- 
chief. He is then bound to pay a yeai-ly tax to the 
Sultan of a slave j — ^to reinforce the hont/i (the Sultan's 
tax-collecting jflotilla) with three vessels j — and to furnish 
it with provisions."* 
The authority of these chiefs over tlicir fellow -villagers 
is merely nominal, as all cases of importance are decided 
hj a council of the elders of the tribe. Mr. Bmijn Kops 
gives the following information respecting crimes and 
their punishment. "An incendiary, with his family, 
becomes the slave of the late proprietor of the burned 
bouse. A man who wilfully wounds another must give 
him a slave as compensation. A thief is compelled to 
make restitution of the property stolen, with something 
in addition. For the destruction of a garden, the damages 
must be made good. An adulterer is persecuted to deathj 
or untU he has satisfied the offended party by a bea^7 
fine. A man who violates a girl has to many her, aud 
has to pay the usual dowry of ten slaves. In cases of 
adultery, the female is not punished, and no infamy 
attaches to her, if yet unmamed/'f 
Customs; — Social and Religious >^1he distinction of 
caste, which is found among the brown races bordering 
on New Guinea, does not appear to exiat among the 
Papuans of Dory, as the chiefs marry in discriminate ly 
females of inferior familieSj according to their choice, 
paying the usual dowry of ten slaves, or their value in 
* Bmijn Kops, " Tijdscluift/' p. 183. 
t Bruiju Kops, " Tijdachrift/* p. 183. 
