R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Tobelau Islands Mar. People usually marry between the ages 5 of 17 and 20. Young married couples (cont.) move into a fale (or whale, as they spell it) occupied by the family of one or the other but usually of the husband. Unmarried man may have sexual relations with unmarried women by secretly going to her at night in her fale. The girls father and brothers become angry with the suitor if he is discovered (the Nukunono Postmaster told me that he was hit in the head with rocks on Fakaofo when he stumbled and aroused the father and brother when leaving a fale at 3AM [when the first cock crowed]). Married men may visit unmarried girls, but this is rather unusual. Children are much desired and bearing an illegitimate child casts no stigma on the mother or the child. The Atafu girls were quite open in expressing a desire to sleep with us. People may live to an advanced age. The oldest person in each village was in their 80s or 90s. The dead are