their belief as to falling stars, iv. 64;
determined the beginning of their year by the rising of the Pleiades, vii. 313;
their offering of first-fruits of sweet potatoes, viii. 133;
warriors taste the blood of their slain foes among the, viii. 156;
put the first fish caught back into the sea, viii. 252;
birth-trees among the, xi. 163
Mar-na, a Philistine deity, ix. 418 n. 1
Mara tribe of Northern Australia, burial rites of the, i. 102 sq.;
their rain-making, i. 251;
their belief as to falling stars, iv. 60 sq.;