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Show 226 APPENDIX TO NO'IES. course, the trader~. do everything in their po,vcr to destroy this belief; Lut, notwithstnnding ttll their endeavours, it is ncvct· eradicated from the mind of the Rlavcs." th:a~g; ~(~\~0: ~~~:~~;n3~~~~r~c0J \1t 1 1° s.~o~:l~c~·~o~~~~:k~o; ~~~~cthl~~::lc ~~ believe that they nrc common to the whole of cast em .Aft·icn., including Abyssinia, where tho character of the inlmbitants, us lil·:twn by Ht·nct·, seems little diff'et·cnt from that of tbcsc .Nubinns. ] regret that 1 am co mpelled to represent all the nations of Africa, which 1 have yet So!'n, in so bad a light." • We next quote from the :Family Mo.gnzinc, 183G, page 439, n.s fo]. lows: "1\Jany of the Dayaks lmvo n. rough, scaly scurf on their skin like the Jacong of the Ma.la.y Peninsula. * * * Tho femal~ aln.vcs of thi~ race, which nrc .found among the. MaJays, have no appearance of 1t. * * * :\' 1t!1 r('gard to t!1e1r funeral ccremonicf.:, tl•e corpse * * * rcmnms 10 the house till the son, the fa ther or the next of blood, can procure or ])Urehnse ~~ sln'\"c, who is behca;lcd at the time the corpse is burned, in order that he may become the ,<dat'C of the dcccaeed in the next world. * * * Nobody can be permitted to marry till he can present a human head of some other tribe to his proposed bride. * * * 'J'hc l1 ead-huntcr proceeds i 11 t he most cnutious manner to tho vicinity of the villages of another tribe, nnd lies in ambush till he Mn su rprise some heedless, unsuspecting wretch, who is in st:lntly dccapitn.teJ. * * * When the hunter returns, the whole village is fi\l(>d with joy, and old n.nd yonn.c:, men and women, lmny out to meet him, and cond uct him, with the sound of brazen cymbals, dancing, in long lines, to the house of the female he admires, whose family likewise come out to greet him with dances, and provide him with a scat, and give him meat and drink. He holds the bloody hcn.d still in his hn.nd, and puts part of tho food into his mouth, after which the fomn.les of the fil.mily recei,,c the lu•ad from him, which they bang up to the ceiling over the door. If a man's wife die, he is uot permitted to make propos1~ls of nutrria,.,.c to another, till he h~s procmed another head of a different tribe. 0 Tha heads they procure m this manner, thC'y preserve with g reat care, nnd sometimes constlt in divination. 'J'he religious opinions con· ncctcd with this practice nrc by no means correctly understood: some ll-o:;scrt they believe that every person whom a. man kills in this world becomes his sLave in the next. * * * . 'l'hc practice of stealing heads causes frequent wars nmong the t•·•bcs of the I dean. l\Jany persons never cnn oht:Lin a head; in which case they arc generally ~teJ~iJl:~,.~[.c~~1~h:~~~·i;;:s~;~d"~l:~ ~~~~;1~~~~i1:!·~ ~~~!~~ :~~;fJI~t /.~.~tb~~~; fleen, and n.t the same time be pointed out his sou, who, a young lad, l1ad procured three." James Edward Alcxn.nder, II. L. S., during the years 1836 and 1837, made an f'xcursion from the Capo of Good Hope into the interior of South Afl'ica and the eountrici:l of the Namaquas, Uo£~chmana, and Hill Da.mnra~, under the auspices of ll cr l\Iaje8ty's Government., and the Royal Gcographic~tl Society, which hn.s been published in two volume~;; from which we extract, vol. i. page 12G; "I wus anxiouli Al'l'ENDIX TO NOTES. 227 to n!lcrrtain lhe extent of knowledge nmong the tribe (Drunaras) with which t now dwelt; to \cam what they kuew of themsc.l~cs, and of men and thiugs in ,_;?nerttl; bt1t 1 must s:lY ll!at.tlley pm11t1v?!Y kno.w uothiu,::; b0youd tracmg g:nmr and brcakmg 111 JllCk-oxcn. ~he~ d1d not know one J~·:H ft·om another; they only ~new that at certam t1mes the ti'CCI! and flowers bloom, anJ then ram was expected. As to their ow11 a.g:c, tlwy knf'w no mure wh:1t it was than idiots. Some C\'CII lmd no names. Of number~. of course, they were nearly or quite ignorant; few coultl count aUove fi\'c; anti hu wa.s n. clever fellow who could count his ten fingl"rs. Ab0\'0 all, they hn.d not the least idea or o~~d o•· of ~~future state. They wore, literally, like the bc:tst.s which perish." J':wo IG ~, JG 1, and 1G5: "At Chubccehcs tho people were very })OOr.0 * * * HtnndinA: in need of :L shepherd, I observed here two or thrcc tine lillle IJaumra boys, as black m~ ebony. * * * ] f.:aitl to tho old woma11 to whom Saul belonged, 'You ha.ve two lJO)'R, and they a~c stnrvin~; you bave n?thi1~g to piv~ them/. :This is u·ue,' shu replied. 'Will you part ~''lth So~ul ~ ~:ud 1.; ~ \Htn~ 1~ 6hephenl, and the boy wants to go w1lh me. "You will lmd h•~n too <'unning.' rctm·ned the old d:~me. '1 wnnt a clever fellow,' ~a1d ]. • \'CI)' well,' silo replied; 'g~vc me four cotton handkcrclu~fs, and he is vnurs.' · 'Suppo~e,' s:ud J, 'you tako two hanJkerchwfs nnd two Hi"rings of gla"s bc:Lds?' 'Ycf:!! ~hat will do;' unci so tho t;~;Jti:;a:·a1~0~~~~~~~~r :~~~ ;,1:1\\~ r~t~:~~~f~~:/;l~;:i~~n~:.ma;r~ ~esl~ an1 tuld him to go 7tnd brin,g his skins; on which he informed me that he had nunc p.a\'iw,. whnt ho stood in-a.ncl that was his own sable hide, with the ~dJitio~1 of the usual strap of leather around his waist, from whieh hun~!\ piece of jackal's sk.ill in front. Constant cxpmm.ro to the vici~l!itudes of the Wl'athcr, w1thout clothes, hardens the skm of the bocly like that of the {;tee; ancl still it is diflieult to sleep at nights ·without p1·opcr C'OYCring. ln cold wcn.thcr, !he poor.creaturcs o.r Namaqua Land, who may l1ave no karosscs, r:ut cowcrmg over a fire all nij!ht, and uwrcly doze with their beads on t.heir knees.". \' ol. ii. pag:e 2:i: "Can any state of ~'~OCICty he conrmlcrod more ]ow and hr11tal than that in which promiscuous intercourse is viewed with tho modt Jll~d'ect indifl'e i'CIICC; whc•·e it is not only practised, hut p.pok('ll of wii.hllllt any 8hamc or compunct ion? So n~ c 1·aL'C ::~.bout the ~lorious lil,f'rty of the savage P-t:tt?, :ulll t~Lout tho mnoc.cnco of the children of noltul·t·, and sa_y tlmt 1t IS chJC'fly by the wh1to men that t!wy become conupt. 'l'hc lloslnuans of J\ babres. had never seen white men hcfurc; they were far removed from the mflucnce of tho El~;~).efn;;::.e 102. "1\'"otwith~tanding that some people maintain that there it no na.tion on e:nth without rc\ir<ion in some form, however faintly it may bo traced in their minds~ yet, after much diligcn~ inquiry, I could not dii<CO\'er the slightest feeling of devotion towards 1~ higher and invisible power :lmong the Hill DamarrlS." ]n 1\lolmmmcdnn countl·ie~, the most unfavoumblc portions of tho ::~~:~~~~~~!~;~~n~s u~1~it'\~si;1·~~{d ~ o~~e ;l:~~~~s~n~h:O i~~~l~~i~ |