18 SISSANO. 
The Sissano practise a fashion of disposing of their dead quite similar to 
that in vogtie in the Motu district, as the trader Schulz has told me. The 
late Schulz was of no particular intelligence, but a man who thought accord- 
ing to his station and I hold him in pleasant regard. It happened to him to 
spy through the chinks of a hut how the relatives squatted about a corpse 
already far gone in corruption and dug out with their fingers meat or skin 
from the rotting body and sucked them as tidbits. Schulz told me that 
they were very careful to keep this secret and refused to speak about it. 
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