Note 9 — Illness, Death, and Burial

I recognise that, though the terms “grave,” “bury,” and “burial” are correctly applied to the mode of interment underground of an ordinary person, the term “grave” is clearly an incorrect one for the overground platform box and tree box in one or other of which a chiefs body is placed; and the use with reference to this mode of disposal of the dead of the terms “bury” and “burial” is, I think, at least unsuitable. But with this apology, and for lack of a short and convenient, but more accurate, substitute adapted to the three methods, I use these terms throughout with reference to all of them.