(1) An ordinary person has to give for his bride about Rs. 153/-, or £10 4s. (2) One of the ruling clan has to give for his bride about Rs. 671/-, or £44 14s. 8d. Then at death the for No. 1, from Rs. 10/- to 20/-, or 13/4 death-due must be met, to £1 6s. 8d. for No. 2, from Rs. 80/- to 150/-, or £5 6s. 8d. to £10. Needless to say, many of these prices are kept on credit, and often have to be met after death by the son or the son's son, making it a terribly complicated matter on the whole. Reginald A. Lorrain, Pioneer Missionary to the Lakhers' or Maras'. May 4th, 1911. Offences against property and person can generally be settled by payment of a fine, but the Lakhers have no fixed custom in such matters, and a person of quality generally takes the law into his own hands if he considers himself aggrieved. Head-hunting used to be indulged in and is still practised by the Lakhers in unadministered tracks. In case of a chief's death it was proper to kill someone of a distant village before drums or gongs were beaten, but it was thought "thianglo" to bring back the head on such an occasion. As regards their religious beliefs, the Lakher equivalent of Pathian is Khazang. Mr. Whalley writes:--"All spirits, with one doubtful exception to be noted later, whether malignant or benign, are slaves of the great spirit Khazang or Loitha. Whereas the attributes and the names of the lesser spirits vary from village to village and individual to individual, this great spirit has a firmer outline and permits of some attempt at description. The picture they draw is primitive, almost touching in its childishness. The Khazang or Loitha is small and brown and almost hairless. He is capable of sexual love and has children. He is material in his essence, but superior to natural laws such as those of time, space, and gravity. He is immortal, and has an immaterial wife and immaterial children. For his continuance the world exists with its revenue. In their own phrase he 'eats' the domains of the lesser spirits through all nature as a chief 'eats' villages (i.e., receives tribute in supplies from villages). He regards individual men much as these same men regard individual ants. Nearer to the heart and farther from the intelligence of the Lakhers is the mysterious Pi-leh-pu, the all-mother and all-father (strictly translated 'grandmother' and 'grandfather,' the term is generally used for ancestors)--a being not anthropomorphised or materialised, partaking in some shadowy way of the functions both of guardian angel and of originator of the human race."