ceremony the children tell while the same people blow their horn and cry on their hands on their parts or skirts. Handclaps are not in order. The marry ceremony begins with a very slow chant borrowed for the Danish Lutheran church, preceeded with a prayer read by the catechist. Then the pastor calls for the contracting parties when a bride and groom step forward from the right hand side and two more come from the other one. They are arranged in couples before the railing. The pastor then reads a very long affair probably upon which he stops to be taken along another again follows. And then asks first the man and then the woman whether they have asked their people if they can talk the Christian moral story. Second only they promise to love Christ and be true to each other and lastly has either one ever given marital promise to some other person. In this land it is the man who gives the loudest voice of consent while the "Aye" of the woman is hardly perceptible. After these questions have been answered in the affirmative, man and woman place their right hands together and kneel before the railing. The pastor then lays his hands upon their heads and undoes them. The bride are from afore to the respective sides. Next the catechist arrives and asks a