CHAPTER IV.
"My far off friends, whose memories fill
My throbbing bosom,—do they speak
Of him whose heart is with them still,
Though joy has ceased to light his cheek?"
The only ceremonies they use preparatory to marriage are, in the first place, to get the parents' consent, the suitor's best claim is being a good fighter, and an expert hunter—so as to be able to protect and provide for a family. They are not at all particular as to the number of wives such men have; consequently some have five or six wives, and others none at all. If a man wishes to have a man's grown up sister for a wife, he must give his own—if he has one—in exchange; but they are very averse to marrying one of their own relations—even of a distant degree. If a woman is supposed to have a child who is not her husband's, they consider it a great disgrace; and to the infant, death is
