nwhile preparing the pipe to be smoked afterwards.[1561]
Junker[1562] was warned that, in passing a princess in Buganda, he must
not touch her robe of oxhide, for that would be an insult to her. If a
woman of the Mongbottu gives coloring matter to a man, that is undue
familiarity and will occasion the wrath of an offended husband.[1563] An
Andaman Islander, if he has occasion to speak to a married woman older
than himself, must do it through a third person. He must not touch his
younger brother's or cousin's wife, or his wife's sister. Women are
restricted in the same way as to the husband's elder brother, or male
cousin, or his brother-in-law.[1564] The relations of relatives in law
are a chapter in propriety.

+480. Seclusion of women.+ In modern Korea women are secluded. It is not
proper to ask for them. Women have been put to death by fathers or
husbands, or are reported to have committed suicide, when strange men,
by accident or design, have touched their hands. A servant woman gave as
a reason for not saving her mistress from a fire in the house that she
had been touched by a man, in the confusion, and was not worth
saving.[1565] In China, if a foreigner asks about the ladies, he is
taken to refer to the mother, not the wife, of the Chinaman.[1566] A
young wife is not allowed, amongst the southern Slavs, to address
comrades in the great-family house by their names, "out of modesty." She
gives them special names, adopted for her intercourse with them. She is
guilty of great impropriety if she chats with her husband in the
presence of her parents-in-law.[1567]

+481. Customs of propriety.+ A native of the Naga Hills told an
Englishman that it was not the correct thing to use a poisoned
arrow except to shoot it at a woman.[1568] On the Palau Islands,
and amongst all Moslems,[1569] it is an insult to a man to ask
him about the health of his wife, and any man may strike with a
stick or a stone, not with a cutting weapon, any one who utters
the former's wife's name. Women are treated with extreme
formality. A man who surprises one bathing is fined. This occurs
very rarely, since the men utter cries of warning when
approaching the place.[1570] In German Melanesia a visitor is at
once presented with betel and food, but he immediately gives some
of it back to the inmates of the house as security against
poison.[1571] The Indians of Central America are shocked at the
quick actions