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idol is supposed to approve. It is considered necessary 
that the Karwar slioulid be present on all important 
occasions^ sucli as births, marriages, or deaths. The 
natives have also a ntimher of "Fetishes/' generally 
carved figures of reptiles, which are suspended from the 
roofs of the houses ; and the posts are also ornamented 
with similar figures, cut into the wood. They have a 
sort of priests, or soothsayers, generally one of the elders 
of the tribe, who is skilled in medicine and in the inter- 
pretation of prognostics. 
The mamage ceremony is peiformed by both parties 
sitting domi in front of the Karwar, when the female 
gives her intended some tobacco and betel-leaf. The 
parties then join hands, and the ceremony is complete. 
When a death occui-s, the body is enveloped in a piece of 
white calico, and deposited in a grave four or five feet 
deep, resting on its side, and a porcelain dish is placed 
undei' the ear. If the deceased has been the head of a 
family, the idol is brought to the grave and loaded with 
reproaches. The arms and ornaments of the deceased are 
then thrown into the gmve, which is filled up with earth, 
and a roof of atap erected over it, upon which the idol is 
placed, and left there to decay. The burial feast is kept 
up for an entire moon when the deceased has been an 
important personage. 
The 'Circe' remained at Dory from the Ist to the 
20th of April, 1850, awaiting the arrival of the Tidore 
' IIongi/_ or flotilla, which had touched at several places 
on the coast during the voyage. Its arrival created a panic 
among the natives, and according to Mr. Bruijn Kops' 
account they had sufficient cause for terror. " On the 
