When we set out on the jolly voyage of life, what a brave fleet there is around us, as stretching our fresh canvas to the breeze, all shipshape and Bristol fashion, pennons flying, music playing, cheering each other as we pass, we are rather amused than alarmed when some awkward comrade goes right ashore for want of pilotage!

Private jets and motor yachts are perquisites of the rich.

The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.

So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.