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haiari would have lost its narcotizing properties and the fish would 
have escaped. 
(i.) While I was travelling with the same Macusi Indians on the 
Takootoo Eiver, at a time when there was famine in that district 
and food was very scarce, a Macusi who was with me refused to eat 
the only meat which we had with us ; for we were to arrive at his house 
in a day or two and he was to be married, and if he had eaten of this 
meat so near the time of his marriage, evil would have befallen him or 
his wife or his future children. 
Many similar examples might probably be col- 
lected both in Guiana and elsewhere ; and by their 
publication the ethnologist might be greatly helped 
towards an explanation of couvade. Any correspondents 
who will help in this matter by sending instances which 
have come under their own observation to the editor of 
this journal will deserve our gratitude. 
The Pronunciation of Timehri. — To speak of oneself 
is in almost all cases wearisome to one's hearers. The 
indulgence of the reader must therefore be requested for 
the few words which it seems desirable here to say of 
ourselves, that is of this journal. The first number has 
been received, almost without the slightest exception, 
with most gratifying favour. The one very slight excep- 
tion is that one or two among our many kindly critics 
have complained of the difficulty of knowing how to 
pronounce our name, Timehri. The difficulty is chiefly 
due to the fact that the spelling which we adopted for 
the word is that which, though it is not strictly 
phonetic, has been used by the very few writers who, 
before this journal was started, had had occasion to use the 
word. It may be removed by stating that the two latter 
