Note 9 — A
Reading edition
“In Efate two kinds of people were allowed to pass unharmed into Hades: those belonging to a certain tribe call Namtaku (a sort of yam) and those who had printed or graven or branded on their bodies certain marks or figures tattooed.”
Somerville.—Notes on the Islands of the New Hebrides, Journal Anthropological Institute, XXIII., 10. ↑