A Morai, in Tongataboo. [Page 527.] This cut describes a place of Worship, and Burying place in this Island, as mentioned by Captain Cooke, and other circumnavigators. Invoking the Dead. [Page 512.] The friends of the deceased are here calling upon him to tell them what caused him to die. It is a Canadian superstition Canadian Marriage. [Page 512.] The couple holding a stick, and dancing, then changing sides, and this is the signal of the marriage union. Mexican Marriage. [Page 529.] This, represents a Mexican Marriage. The Priest is here in the act of uniting the persons together in wedlock, by tying the corners of their respective garments in what we call a true-lover's knot. Siberian Priest, invoking his Deities. [Page 529.] The priest sounding a sort of drum, in calling upon his god to cure a sick man. |