MELANESIAN ANNOTATIONS ON THE VOCABULARY. (Zi 
the pig on the back, a man standing by saying, ‘“‘Let Mark now smack the 
pig for Kwatagiav.’’ ‘The pig then becomes the property of John (I 64). 
(Another initiation ceremony.) ‘The pigs had already been handed over 
and the payments of money were being made (I 70). 
(Initiation.) Thirty-seven people contributed altogether, their amounts 
varying from 1 to 12 fathoms, three also giving pigs (I 71). 
(Initiation.) To the man who fetched the cycas trees Charles gave a pig 
and the 2 extra fathoms (I 73). 
(Initiation.) After dancing for about 5 minutes Charles put the measur- 
ing rods against the thatch of the house and went to bring three stout pointed 
posts, which he stuck in the ground in a row on one side of the dancing ground, 
the posts being about 4 feet apart. Then from a shed he brought a very fine 
pig, which he tied to post No. 1, and then taking up the measuring rods, 
danced again. After a few turns he again put down the rods and fetched a 
second pig, which he tied to the second post. He danced again without the 
rods and then brought a pig to tie to the third post. “Iwo more posts were 
then erected and two pigs were tied to these. ‘Then Charles himself brought 
a sixth post and tied another pig to it and again danced, but now with a pig’s 
jawbone in his left hand and the measuring rods in his right, and after a few 
turns he went into the house. Abraham, the old man who was “making the 
Sukwe,”’ then set up two stakes close by the gamal and Charles came out of 
the house with 7 fathoms of money in his right hand, and taking up the pig’s 
jawbone in his left hand, he danced again a few turns. A woman, belonging 
to the village of the dancing party, then came and stood in the dancing 
ground near the house and Charles laid the 7 fathoms of money over her left 
shoulder. Three of the fathoms were to repay money she had given to the 
dancers, a tenth of a fathom to each, while the other 4 fathoms were given 
in addition. When he had given the money Charles again took the measur- 
ing rods and danced. A man then brought out three more pigs and tied 
two to the stakes set up by Abraham and the third to a cycas tree near the 
gamal and then Charles went on dancing. When he ceased Abraham put a 
leaf of the tree-fern in the thatch under the eaves of the house just over the 
doorway, and then went to the dancers and received from one of them a bow 
and arrow, which he carried into the house. Charles then danced again, 
holding 4 fathoms of money in his right hand and the pig’s jawbone in the 
left, and when he stopped a small boy, whom Charles called mak, came from 
the dancing party and Charles laid over his head the 4 fathoms, so that one 
end of the string of money hung over his face and the other down his back. 
The boy had helped to hire the dancers and had paid them 2 fathoms and he 
received the other 2 fathoms as interest on his outlay. . . . The dancers 
were then told to continue and Abraham and Charles again danced, the former 
now holding the arrow in his right and the bow in his left hand. Both men 
then stood by pigs Nos. 7 and 8 and Abraham slapped them in succession on 
the back, speaking to Charles as he did so, and then both danced again. ‘Then 
Abraham fitted his arrow to the string of his bow and drew his bow to shoot 
the pig No. 9, but Charles laid his hand on his arm to stop him. ‘The pig 
was to be killed for a feast, but as the next day was Sunday the killing was to 
be deferred to the following week. Charles then went on dancing alone with 
the jawbone and the measuring rods and then sat down to rest in the shade 
near his house. . . . At a period in the song of the dancers the kava roots 
were laid on the ground by the side of pig No. 2. . . . Six men then stood 
outside the gamal with conch shells and blew fourteen or fifteen times, blow- 
ing ‘‘for the pigs and for the money.”’ As they blew Charles and his father 
Alfred stood by the pigs Nos. 5, 4, 1, 2, 3, and 6 and both smacked the backs 
