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spirit goes out of him. When he dies, the spirit remains alive 
and roams around place where he died. No ceremony of 
cutting themselves [for] some time after death. Any time for 
a year after, if they come together, they weep, &c. On day 
of death, someone makes speeches praising the dead man. 
Speak well of deceased and family. Speak this to the spirit. 
Move camp and burn everything belonging to dead. Kill his 
dogs and do not name him. If any other person of same 
name as deceased, change name. 1 ( ?)No idea of reincarnation 
according to this informant (Acasajanicks, 2 39 years old). 
New born child gets spirit ‘from nature’. Spirit of dead 
person always stays where it [person] dies. Some imagine 
they see the spirits. Informant knows nothing of spirits’ lives 
except that they always remain. Same informant’s words: 
‘White man got his heaven. We have not.’ 
kun , seal oil; they drink this; like Scot’s Emulsion. 
Du-mush-kai-pdnna , 3 hermaphrodite, woman’s voice and 
laugh. 
July x, Monday. From Bessie (Plate XI) at Piedro’s. 4 
Three kinds of shags: (1) wa-sdni , with white neck and 
breast, and back of neck black; (2 ) yershick, black; (3) d-lon , 
black neck and white breast. Yaghans eat these birds, and 
most eat eggs, but Bessie does not. 
Wd (or u)-sani-mai-wai-ya (or id) is the name of Piedro’s 
cove, wa-sani signifying shags, mat ya , going out to fish, 
wai ya, a bay: the whole meaning‘The bay of shags where 
they go out to fish.’ There are precipices close by where 
the shags come to roost at night, and can be heard calling 
out. 
Agai i a , Ponsonby Sound. 
A-hush ukka (or dkka), House of the Wild Man, is the 
1 Cf. account of Kush berry, June 29; Change of name , July 2. 
2 Spanish/. 
3 Entry labelled July 2 , but on page labelled June 30. 
4 X in margin} i.e. collected by Miss Hamilton from ‘Bessie’. 
