Note 4 — Chapter IV · RELIGION
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Should several children have died young, the parents will carry the next baby and deposit it in a friend’s house, and then come and ask, “Have you a slave to sell,” and purchase it for a small sum. This is supposed to deceive the Huais. Such children’s names always begin with Suak,4 and, judging from the frequency with which such names are met, the custom must be a very common one.