... brought and placed around the feet and legs of the horse, and gradually laid up to its sides, and at last over the back and head of the unsuspecting animal, and last of all over the head and even the ... Kagamale, the island in question, as the last resting-place of a great chief, knownas Karkhayahouchak. Last year the captain was in the neighborhood of Kagamale in quest of sea-otter and other ... Immediately upon the death of a member of the household, the relatives begin a peculiar wailing, and the immediate members of the family take off their customary apparel and clothethemselves in rags...