and their Relations.
86 Platform Grave of a Chief's Child.
87, 88 The _Gabe_ Fig Tree, in which Chiefs' Burial Boxes
are placed and which is Generally Believed to be Haunted
by Spirits.
89 The Remains of a Chiefs Burial Platform which has collapsed,
and beneath which his Skull and some of his Bones are interred
Underground.
90 An _Emone_ to which are hung the Skulls and some of the
Bones from Chiefs' Burial Platforms which have Collapsed.
91 A House with Receptacle for Child's Excrement.

Map.

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

1. Leg band making (commencing stage)
2. Ancient Mortar
3. Illustrative Diagram of a Mafulu Community of Villages
4. Diagram of Front of _Emone_ (Front Hood of Roof and Front
Platform and Portions of Front Timbers omitted, so as to
show Interior)
5. Diagram of Transverse Section across Centre of Emone
6. Diagrammatic Sketch of Apse-like Projection of Roof of
_Emone_ and Platform Arrangements
7. Diagram Illustrating Positions of People during Performance
at Big Feast
8. Mafulu Net Making (1st Line of Network)
9. Mafulu Net Making (2nd, 3rd, and 4th Lines of Network)
10. Mafulu Net Making (5th Line of Network, to which Rest of
Net is similar in Stitch)

INTRODUCTION

By Dr. A.C. Haddon

It is a great pleasure to me to introduce Mr. Williamson's book to
the notice of ethnologists and the general public, as I am convinced
that it will be read with interest and profit.

Perhaps I may be permitted in this place to make a few personal
remarks. Mr. Williamson was formerly a solicitor, and always had a
great longing to see something of savage life, but it was not till
about four years ago that he saw his way to attempting the realisation
of this desire by an expedition to Melanesia. He made my acquaintance
in the summer of 1908, and seeing that he was so keenly interested,
I lent him a number of books and all my MS. notes on Melanesia;
by the help of these and by the study of other books he gained a
good knowledge of the ethnology of that area. In November, 1908, he
started for Oceania for the first time and reached Fiji, from which
place he had intended to start on his expedition. Circumstances
over which he had no control, however, prevented the carrying out
of his original programme; so he went to Sydney, and there arranged