<br><b>Image from page 91 of "Coral and atolls: a history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general" (1912)</b><br><p><b>Title:</b> Coral and atolls: a history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general<br><b>Identifier:</b> coralatollshisto00jone<br><b>Year:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1912">1912</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1910">1910s</a>)<br><b>Authors:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorJones_F_Wood_Frederic_Wood_1879_1954">Jones, F. Wood (Frederic Wood), 1879-1954</a><br><b>Subjects:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectCoral_reefs_and_islands">Coral reefs and islands</a><br><b>Publisher:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherLondon_Lovell_Reeve_Co_Ltd_">London, Lovell Reeve &amp; Co. , Ltd.</a><br><b>Contributing Library:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorSmithsonian_Libraries">Smithsonian Libraries</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorBiodiversity_Heritage_Library">Biodiversity Heritage Library</a>
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</p><p><b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b><br><i>52 CORAL AND ATOLLS help of his friends, captured a maiden from the company of a neighbouring tribe. The bridegroom's friend was his assistant in the raid, and to-day the descendant of the brother raider is seen, in our own weddings, as the best man, though custom has long since spared him the ordeal of making sword- Fm. 1.</i>
</p><p><b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>A Wedding Geoup in Cocos-Keeijng. The bride and bridegroom are wearing the flower-decked headgear. play, or firing blank charges in the direction of the bride's mother. Just as our best man is seen on a glorified scale in these Cocos wedding ceremonies, so is the custom of sending out Avedding cake to absent friends displayed in its archaic form at the feasts of the Malays. The food that is to be used at the wedding feast—or indeed at any other ceremony of general</i>
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