. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e people, as wellas a regular slave trade. Marriage is a matter of contract, the price of a girl being often paidin slaves ; polygamy is practised by those who can afford it, except amongthe Dorah tribes. Among these the bride and bridegroom arejoined with some ceremony, fol-lowed by a nights carouse, in which thenewly married are silent spectators. Amongthe Wukas of the moun
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e people, as wellas a regular slave trade. Marriage is a matter of contract, the price of a girl being often paidin slaves ; polygamy is practised by those who can afford it, except amongthe Dorah tribes. Among these the bride and bridegroom arejoined with some ceremony, fol-lowed by a nights carouse, in which thenewly married are silent spectators. Amongthe Wukas of the mountain regions the youngpeople arrange an elopement, followed by apursuit and negotiations for purchase. TheDorahs bury their dead wrapped in whitecalico, the interment being followedby a funeral feast. In the case ofa chief, the ancestral image is carried to thefuneral and reproached for its bones of the dead are dug up after a fewyears, and hung in baskets round the outsideof the dwelling. The dried head of a grown- Marriage. Burial up youth is preserved after death, fed withall the dishes of the funeral feast, decked withwooden ears and nose, and with seeds foreyes, and regarded as a guardian of the. WEAPONS, ETC., OF THEPAPUAI^S. THE PAPUANS. 901 houseliold. The Wukas place their dead on a scaffolding, cover themwith leaves, and keep up a fire beneath it for many days, until the bodyis completely dried, when it is first carried to a lofty platform, and after-wards laid in a mountain cave. Among most of the tribes the body isdisinterred a year after burial, and the anniversary of the funeral is cele-brated by feasting. The Papuans appear to believe in the survival of aspirit after the death of the body, and that the spirits live below or abovethe sea, having those enjoyments which they liked when on earth. Papuan amusements are limited in variety, chiefly consisting of ex-travagant dances, the dancers being fantastically dressed or disfigured byheads of animals o
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