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hunt aguti and monkey for niv', and catch fisli and turtle for me? The 
last strophe would be suug iu a heart-reudiug voice, the uext would 
be sung iu a more wailing and imploring tone : "Oh, Yawahu,* you have 
taken him from ns by force, otherwise, he would never have left his üeld 
and his own people. Bring him back to his friends, those from whom 
you robbed him, so that he may hunt aguti and ape, and also get yam 
and cassava. AVho is going to hunt aguti and ape? ,Who is going to 
catch fish and turtle for me?" 
869. On the second day subse<iuent to the burial, the captain and the 
oldest people decked in festival attire, left the village, to invite 
the neighbours to the feast wliile tlie Hoho-hit with his schohirs was 
already practising tlie re(iuisite nuisic with a noise truly deafening to 
one's senses. Among the instruments, I learnt to know of a new one, 
made of burnt clay, \\'hicli was hollow, and had a peculiar shape that 
resembled an 8 : botJi ends were open, one of thera being provided with a 
sort of mouthpiece. The sound generally resembled that of our night- 
watchmen with their fire horns. 
870. The Indians came trooping iu next morning dressed in holiday 
attire, some of tliem cloth-ed in a cotton shirt, and all the scenes which 
I had so often witnessed were enacted anew. As the Warraus com- 
mence their drinking-feasts before midday, I did not at least lose my 
sleep on that score. The lamentation of tlie widow and the relatives 
formed all the more glaring a contrast with this wild orgie. Already by 
afternoon, the most furious fights brnko out among the drunken women 
with whom nails and teeth took the place of weapons. So long as the men 
were in full possession of their facnUics they managed to separate the 
intoxicated furies and tie them up tight in their hammocks where they 
let their tempers find an outlet in taunts and screams. 
871. A peculiar custom among the Warraus is that the widow and 
children left behind l)ecome the ])ro])erty of the brother or nearest re- 
lative. If the widow objects, the provoked blood-relatives revenge 
themselves by thronging into her liouse and giving her a most unmerci- 
ful thrashing, as the result of which she obtains her liberty to live with 
him whom she herself has chosen. 
872. Among the many tamed animals, as monkeys, parrots, and 
gallinaceous birds, the most interesting to me was a pet glutton (ChiJo 
vittattis). To protect the young ])onltry from its murderous lust, they 
had tied it up. Its food consisted of fiesh, fish, raw fruit, and cooked 
yams. Onlo A lJamanda is also found on the coast, and only differs from 
the G. ritfatiis in colour. The pelt of the back is dull black, a pigment, 
that on account of the white tips of the hairs, gives it a mixed colour. 
The snout, the lower jaw, throat, and parts of the body are on the other 
hand a shiny black : a whitish stripe shows itself between the eyes, over 
the ears, and along the sides of the neck. In a tamed condition they 
si lew a marked aversion to water. 
* Foot-uote Sect. 453, Vol. I. {Ed.) 
tTliese floiiljle-ltellied cl;vy trumpets are still met with amongst the Wai i ans. (Eil ) 
