The person who came under this form of the tapu was cut off from all contact, and almost all communication with the human race.

It contains some of my tapu treasures; take great care of it, for I may not see you again; I may fall with my tribe.

Of this kind was the tapu of those who handled the dead, or conveyed the body to its last resting-place.

This tapu is a bore, even to write about, and I fear the reader is beginning to think it a bore to read about.