CHAP. XXVIII.--Burial rites in Samoa--burying alive--taking his pigs to a better market--a Samoan inquest--Samoan wakes--carrying a dead body about--Samoan coffins--dexterous embalming--the mysterious grave fires--a trap to catch a lost soul--burial customs of the New Zealanders--ornamenting the dead body--the sexton in Borneo--the weeping-stone of the Permujans--burning the dead in Western Sarawak--the burning less efficacious than burying--the hereditary office of sexton--difficulties of finding a sexton--sepulchral rites of the Sea Dayaks--useful things for consumption in the next world placed in the grave--Sea Dayaks who fall in battle not disturbed--Mourning among the Indians of North America--dirtiness the most favourite symbol--tombs in the air--exorcising an evil spirit--custom of the Sacs and Foxes--of the Tahkalis--of the New Caledonians--a New Caledonian suttee--barbarous treatment of the widow--her scorching, and her three years’ mourning and drudgery--the village of the dead--burial unknown among the Mandans--a Mandan place of skulls--praying to the dead--singular ceremonies attending the interment of an Ojibbeway--Ojibbeway mourners--disposing of the property of the dead--a Chippewa ghost story--an invisible presence--a spirited ghost--veneration for the dead--a royal funeral. Pages 361–385. CHAP. XXIX.--Funeral rites in Damara land--dutiful behaviour of the eldest son of the deceased--a Damara tomb--offering a pail of milk at the grave--the Koossan method of disposing of their dead--deserting the sick--duties of the dead Koossan’s wife--returning in the night to burn down the house--the ox-tail hair necklace worn by the Koossan widower--Koossan chiefs buried in the cattle-fold--the magic woman among the Koossans--no recovering spilt water--no cure, no pay--fate of the unlucky mortal whom the magic woman denounces--death in Central Africa--waking a defunct man--no half-mourning among savages--the guests who are invited to the wake--_Bota woga_--a tremendous boose--a slave barracoon at Santanga--the sight that M. Chaillu saw--a thousand bleaching skeletons--funeral ceremonies in Angola--a jollification in consequence of the death of his mother--the mortal remains of a Bechuana--planting the top of the head with grass--the burying-ground at Fetish point--disinclination of the natives to approach the place of graves--the tomb of old King Passol--a wealthy grave-holder--burying at Anbago, Western Africa--the bereaved wife carried a pick-a-back--security for “Gungo”--a Barrodo Beondo funeral--occupying the bed of the deceased--“making a cry” among the Bulloms and Timannecs--King Archibongo and his devil house--the painted widows--the “chop-nut” test--Malagasey burial rites--ceremonials observed on the death of Prince Razahooatrino--lying in state--the attendant