The whole shocking business is regarded as quite an ordinary affair; and after the sufferer is able to get about again she bears her husband not the slightest ill-feeling.

You see, she has had her say and paid for it.
The girls, as they grow up, are taught to cook according to the native fashion, and are also required to build ovens in the earth or sand; make the fires, build "break-winds," and generally help their mothers in preparing meals.

When at length the meal is cooked, the manner of eating it is very peculiar.

First of all, the women retire into the background.
The lord and master goes and picks out the tit-bits for himself, and then sits down to eat them off a small sheet of bark.

More often, however, he simply tears the meat in pieces with his hands.