Drinks, drugs, and poisons: their use and preparation--Unfermented drinks--_Caapi_--Fermented drinks--_Cahuana_--Coca: its preparation, use, and abuse--_Parica_--Tobacco--Poison and poison-makers 138 CHAPTER XI Small families--Birth tabu--Birth customs--Infant mortality--Infanticide--Couvade--Name-giving--Names--Tabu on names--Childhood--Lactation--Food restrictions--Child-life and training--Initiation 146 CHAPTER XII Marriage regulations--Monogamy--Wards and wives--Courtship--Qualifications for matrimony--Preparations for marriage--Child marriages--Exception to patrilocal custom--Marriage ceremonies--Choice of a mate--Divorce--Domestic quarrels--Widowhood 159 CHAPTER XIII Sickness--Death by poison--Infectious diseases--Cruel treatment of sick and aged--Homicide--Retaliation for murder--Tribal and personal quarrels--Diseases--Remedies--Death--Mourning--Burial 168 CHAPTER XIV The medicine-man, a shaman--Remedies and cures--Powers and duties of the medicine-man--Virtue of breath--Ceremonial healing--Hereditary office--Training--Medicine-man and tigers--Magic-working--Properties--Evil always due to bad magic--Influence of medicine-man--Method of magic-working--Magical cures 178 CHAPTER XV Indian dances--Songs without meaning--Elaborate preparations--The Chief’s invitation--Numbers assembled--Dance step--Reasons for dances--Special dances--Dance staves--Arrangement of dancers--Method of airing a grievance--Plaintiff’s song of complaint--The tribal “black list”--Manioc-gathering dance and song--Muenane Riddle Dance--A discomfited dancer--Indian riddles and mimicry--Dance intoxication--An unusual incident--A favourite dance--The cannibal dance--A mad festival of savagery--The strange fascination of the Amazon 190 CHAPTER XVI Songs the essential element of native dances--Indian imagination and poetry--Music entirely ceremonial--Indian singing--Simple melodies--Words without meaning--Sense of time--Limitations of songs--Instrumental music--Pan-pipes--Flutes and fifes--Trumpets--Jurupari music and ceremonial--Castanets--Rattles--Drums--The _manguare_--Method of fashioning drums--Drum language--Signal and conversation--Small hand-drums 206 CHAPTER XVII