FUNERAL CEREMONIES — WITCHCRAFT. 75 
destroyed by whatever may chance that 
way. 
Crying for the dead is quite a business in 
that country, and not a few sleepless nights 
did we spend because of the noise made by 
the moaning, fiddling and drumming on 
such occasions. To comfort one mourning 
for the dead, is to cool his heart; and they 
always expect a handsome present from 
white persons, to assist their words of com- 
fort "to cool their hearts." 
They inter their dead by simply rolling 
the corpse in a mat, or cloth, and putting 
it under ground near the same depth usual 
in this country. 
Just after they "pull the cry" (cease from 
it ) for a headman is their favorite time to 
make war upon an enemy. 
The notion is quite common, that a noted 
headman cannot die, but that they change 
their identity, and hence they call the new 
headman by the same name which the 
deceased had. This is also an ancient 
custom, so far as retaining the name is con- 
cerned. The Kings of Egypt were named 
Pharaoh for many successive reigns. 
