Chapter XL

of his "Melanesians" that a reference here will suffice. [95]

Having now before us the whole ring of the Kula, we may inquire how far is this ring in contact commercially with other outlying districts, and, more especially, how far are certain articles of trade imported into it and others drawn out of it? What will interest us most in this connection is the entry into the ring and the exit out of it of the articles of Kula proper, the mwali (armshells) and the soulava (necklaces).

III

One such offshoot of the Kula ring we met in the Trobriands, to wit, the expeditions from the Western village of Kavataria, and from the island of Kayleula, to the Koya of Fergusson and Goodenough. We shall begin with a brief account of these expeditions. [96] The preparations are very much the same, as in Sinaketa. The canoes are built with more or less the same magic (cf. Chapter V ), they are launched ceremonially and the trial run, the tasasoria, also takes place (