slaves and the fly fanners--subscription among the mourners to pay the funeral expenses--1500 oxen slain and eaten at a funeral feast--stepping over dead oxen--no special places for burial in Madagascar--death in Australia--the name of the dead never mentioned by the surviving relatives--perching dead old women on tree boughs--“take that for dying!”--the Abyssinian a believer in the doctrine of purgatory--dancing and singing and face-scratching--funeral of an Ailat man--how the Sambo Indian is buried--the body in the pitpan--running away with the corpse to cheat the devil--artful device of the corpse-bearers--cutting down the palm trees--the way to find out if “Wulasha” has been cheated--what the traveller Stephens saw at La Rayas, in Mexico--a _Christian_ burial--death in Dahomey--the very last grand custom--the king’s ingenious device for the more ready performance of human sacrifice--a victim saved--how a Dahoman king is buried--providing his majesty with means for paying his way in the next world. Pages 386–418. [Illustration] List of Wood-Cuts, FROM DESIGNS BY HARDEN S. MELVILLE. ENGRAVED BY H. NEWSOM WOODS. PAGE FORBE’S RECEPTION BY THE KING OF DAHOMEY 1 A MALAGASEY BALL 52 BORNEO 54 AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS 66 POLYNESIAN WAR CANOE 67 WAR DANCE OF NEW ZEALANDERS 88 DAYAK AND MALAY WEAPONS 93 POLYNESIAN GOODS BOAT 106 NORTH AMERICAN WAR WEAPONS 111 A CHIPPEWA WARRIOR 115 POLYNESIAN WAR TOOLS 122 THE EUROPEAN’S HUT IN THE WILDERNESS 133 TORRES’ STRAITS CANOE 147 AN AUSTRALIAN DUEL 154 AFRICAN ARMS 162 THE UNIVERSAL WEAPON 168 A SAVAGE BOWMAN 169 PAPUAN BLACKSMITHS 180 THE EXPLORER’S HIGHWAY 183 THE TWO DOGS OR NONE 192 BOATMEN OF ROCKINGHAM BAY 203 THE TRUE WORD EXPOUNDED IN WESTERN AFRICA 204 SAMOAN IDOL WORSHIP 218