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If they kill horses, or other domestic cattle, they believe the ghosts of the murdered animals spoil their hunting by frightening away the game. - Any unusual sound which they cannot readily account for, fills them with terror; - especially an individual alone in the night.

It is considered dishonourable for a girls to become the wife of a man who has not purchased her; it being a custom for men to buy their wives. Horses, guns or blankets are generally given in such cases. Sometimes ten or fifteen guns are given, but often, not so much. The prices (or presents) are given to the parents and by them distributed among the relatives. Parents claim the right of selling their daughters; but do not often force them to marry against their wills. Mr Pond has known some women to commit suicide in order to avoid being united to men who they did not love; so it appears that the tender passion pervades all classes and grades of the human family (except royal families), from the most savage to the most refined. When girls marry, they do not often leave their parents; their husbands go to them. Some men