Summary: entombed in a sitting posture, with the hands crossed over and the face turned to the west. The tomb, which is merely a circle of bamboos about three feet high, loosely covered with mats, is generally raised upon platforms in the open fields. The stack of bamboos bearing the body is not thrown down, but remains until decomposed by time; it then falls upon the body or crumbles within. funeral ceremonies, the relatives preserve strict silence, and after the lapse of any con-venient period, come in a numerous proces- sion to the common cemetery of the village to commemorate the deceased by cutting a small chip from the decayed mats and carrying it on their heads to the nearest river, when singing and prayer keep up the proper spirit during the whole ceremony. They sprinkle with a coco-nut shell from the river, when the whole party disperse, thy return home singing and striking their hands. The public events in the private life of an individual are marked by new demonstrations of grief and feasting. At the end of two or three years, they sacrifice a pig, when the crowding together into a booth to perform these rites with the most numerous sorrowing followers, who wear false hair and paint the face with tar, convey at any hour the perfect illusion of an inroad of bloodthirsty savages.