Crossword-Solution: GABI 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They either (1) dig a shallow grave in the ground under the fallen platform, and put the skull and special bones there, and then fill in the grave with soil, on this put a heap of stones, and on these put the wooden remains of the collapsed platform, planting round them tobacco or croton, or some other fine-leaved plant, or (2) they put the skull and special bones in a box on the _gabi_ burying tree, or (3) they take them to the _emone_, and there hang them up till they are wanted for a big feast.

Plate 87 is a _gabi_ fig tree, used for tree burial, near to the village of Seluku, and Plate 88 shows the remains of an old burial box in one of its forks.

What the creepers are I could not ascertain; but the trees are a very large palm which grows on the mountains and not on the coast, a form of pine tree, [109] and the _gabi_ fig-tree, used for burial of chiefs.

Again one is struck by the fact that the special _gabi_ tree, which is the tree used for the interment of chiefs and notables, is one of the trees whose presence is regarded as indicating a place inhabited by spirits.

This sort of tree, called by the natives _gabi_, is specially used for such burials; one of them has been seen supporting no less than six coffins, one above the other.