Their ceremonies for the dead are divers. They bring goats and let them bleed at the _Mokisso’s_ foot, which they after consume in a feasting memorial of the deceased party, which is continued four or five days together, and that four or five several times in the year, by all his friends and kindred. The days are known, and though they dwell twenty miles thence, yet they will resort to these memorial exequies, and, beginning in the night, will sing doleful and funeral songs till day, and then kill, as aforesaid, and make merry. The hope of this maketh such as have store of friends to contemn death; and the want of friends to bewail him makes a man conceive a more dreadful apprehension of death.[233] [_Prohibitions—Taboo._] Their conceit is so ravished with superstition that many die of none other death. _Kin_[234] is the name of unlawful and prohibited meat, which, according to each kindred’s devotion, to some family is some kind of fish; to another a hen; to another, a buffe [beef]; and so of the rest: in which they observe their vowed abstinence so strictly that if any should (though all unawares) eat of his _Kin_, he would die of conceit, always presenting to his accusing conscience the breach of his vow, and the anger of _Mokisso_. He hath known divers thus to have died, and sometimes would, when some of them had eaten with him, make them believe that they had eaten of their _Kin_, till, having sported himself with their superstitious agony, he would affirm the contrary. They use to set in their fields and places where corn or fruits grow, a basket, with goat’s horns, parrot’s feathers, and other trash: this is the _Mokisso’s_ Ensign, or token, that it is commended to his custody; and therefore, the people very much addicted to theft, dare not meddle, or take anything. Likewise, if a man, wearied with his burthen, lay it down in the highway, and knit a knot of grass, and lay thereon; or leave any other note (known to them) to testify that he hath left it there in the name of his idol, it is secured from the lime-fingers of any passenger. Conceit would kill the man that should transgress in this kind.[235]