ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proceeds that he was made aware of the subtle yet all-important distinction between mechanical dilation and physiological fertilization; and was thus enabled to place native belief regarding procreation in its proper perspective. The ideas about the sexual functions of the genitals are more complex and systematic, and present a sort of psycho-physiological theory. The physiological theory associated with the belief has already been touched on. Paternity, unknown in the full biological meaning so familiar to, is yet maintained by a social dogma which declares: 'Every family must have a father; a woman must marry before she may have children; there must be a male to every household.' The natives have a practical acquaintance with the main features of the human anatomy, and an extensive vocabulary for the various parts of the human body and for the internal organs.
