1 66  Mr.  miller’s  Account  of 
likewife  pointed,  which  are  concealed  by  the  grafs,  but 
will  run  quite  through  a man’s  foot.  Without  thefe 
fences  they  plant  a prickly  fpecies  of  bamboo,  which 
foon  forms  an  impenetrable  hedge.  They  never  ftir 
out  of  thefe  Compongs  unarmed ; their  arms  are  match- 
lock guns,  which,  as  well  as  the  powder,  are  made  in  the 
country,  and  fpears  with  long  iron  heads.  They  do  not 
fight  in  an  open  manner,  but  way-lay  and  fhoot  or  take 
priloner  finglc  people  in  the  woods  or  paddy-fields. 
Thefe  prifoners,  if  they  happen  to  be  the  people  who 
have  given  the  offence,  they  put  to  death  and  eat,  and 
their  fkulls  they  hang  up  as  trophies  in  the  houfes  where 
the  unmarried  men  and  boys  eat  and  fleep.  They  allow 
of  polygamy : a man  may  purchafe  as  many  wives  as  he 
pleafes ; but  their  number  feldorn  exceeds  eight.  They 
have  no  marriage  ceremony;  but,  when  the  purchafe  is 
agreed  on  by  the  father,  the  man  kills  a buffalo  or  a 
horfe,  invites  as  many  people  as  he  can ; and  he  and  the 
woman  fit  and  eat  together  before  the  whole  company, 
and  are  afterwards  confidered  as  man  and  wife.  If  after- 
wards the  man  chufes  to  part  with  his  wife,  he  fends  her 
back  to  her  relations  with  all  her  trinkets,  but  they  keep 
the  purchafe-money ; if  the  wife  diflikes  her  hufband, 
her  relations  muff  repay  double  the  purchai  e-money. 
A man  detected  in  adultery  is  punilhed  with  death, 
and  the  body  eaten  by  the  offended  party  and  his  friends : 
the 
