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Turner George
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The same idea seems to have been a check on cannibalism, as there was a fear lest the god of the deceased would be avenged on those who might cook and eat the body.
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They have no fermented liquors ; but they make an intoxicating draught from an infusion of the chewn root of the ava plant {Piper methysticum). A bowl of this disgustingly-prepared stuff is made and served out when a party of chiefs sit down to a meal. At their ordinary meals few partake of it but the father, or other senior members of the family. It is always taken before, and not after the meal. Among a formal party of chiefs, it is handed round in a cocoa-nut shell cup, with a good deal of ceremony.


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