Show j I IN NEW BRITAIN and neighbring jj islandiion the west coast of Guinea lbenatives not confine their can I j Tribalism to missionaries though they prefer missionary thigh prepared r with coccanut milk and dressed with banana leaves to any delicacy the J cou try affords It is not uncommon 1 j torn husband to kill and eat his wife I as the latter is simply property bought sold eaten or otherwise disposed 4 dis-posed of as the purchaser chcoiei If f 1 a wife becomes unruly quarrelsome or otherwise disagreeable the husband f J hus-band first triea to sell her and Ailing 1 in that puts her to the next best use 1 r i namely eats her Even in Siberia V f i wires are bought and gold though not t devoured At Ueuri the average I price of a wife is eight dogs and a I 1 sledge or two cases of brandy though an inferior article can be obtained for 4 lesa In America the traffic is not conducted BO openly nor upon euch s I s business principles yet there is a good deal of buying of wives going on and there is monetary value placed upon 4 not a few of them |