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are also taught to he quiet when older persons are holding a council 
or chat. They are made to salute people in passing, and to show 
kindness to the aged and to the sick. 
The girls are taught to cook, to sweep out the huts (with bundles 
of fine dried grass), to show hospitality to strangers, to fetch water 
and firewood, to elude arrows at a fight, to dance, and to perform 
“ Ionian ” movements. The boys are taught to shoot, to fight 
(blunt arrows being used), the proper way to treat an enemy, &c. 
The education of boys and girls is not considered to be com- 
plete until they have travelled. When about ten years of age 
they are sent away from home to visit friends and relations at 
distant villages or among neighbouring tribes. They remain away 
during the fine months of the year. The girls may return at any 
time, but the boys are usually anxious to, remain away as long as 
possible, in order to learn as much as they can from contact with 
other people. Should the girls wish to come home, the boys will 
bring them, and as soon as they have seen them safe with their 
relations, they start off again. The boys must, however, return 
home when the rains begin, and remain during the wet months, to 
help their fathers in agricultural work ; whereas the girls, if they 
choose, may stay away ; if wanted, they are sent for. When out on 
these visits the young people take part in the hunts, dances, or what- 
ever else may be going on. Sometimes a father will take his 
children a round of visits. 
Both boys and girls are taught to find their way about, so that if 
the path should be lost they are not long in discovering their 
whereabouts. 
Family Gatherings . — There does not appear to be any special 
occasion for family gatherings, but from time to time all the sons, 
daughters, and grandchildren meet at the father’s house. The love 
for children causes great interest to be expressed about the babies. 
At such family gatherings the father directs the thoughts of all 
to grandparents and old friends who have passed away, enforcing at 
the same time the duty of attention and care to relatives and friends 
when ill, and of mourning for them when dead, as they then are 
beyond the reach of help. 
Tribal Signs . — Each division of the tribe has a number, by which 
those who belong to it are known. Persons are said to carry so 
