14 HKV. ALFRED T. BRYANT. 



One of their commonest modes of curing local pains is by 

 rubbing- powdered medicine into incisions made on the spot. 



They have their vapour-baths, in which the patient, 

 crouching over a boiling pot, is enclosed, along with the 

 latter, within the ample embrace of a large skin or blanket ; 

 and their sweating-baths, similarh' administered; or else a 

 roomy pit, with a narrow entrance-hole, is dug in the earth, 

 a large fire lighted therein, and the ashes having been 

 extracted, the patient is required to enter and enjoy a rude 

 kind of Turkish bath, the entrance-hole being lightly covered 

 with a blanket or hide to keep out the cold air and keep in 

 the wann. 



The clyster and emetic are special favourites with all 

 natives. I suppose they resort to this means of treatment 

 more than to any other, even than to actual dosing. Practi- 

 cally all those common attacks of passing indisposition to 

 which one is periodically liable, as well as most of the more 

 important febrile complaints, are ascribed by them to the 

 bile {iNyonyo), and their first step is to clear the excess of 

 this fluid out of the system by one or other, or both, of the 

 above methods. 



(8) Physical and Constitutional Traits of the Native, 



The Zulu in his native state is one of the finest physical 

 types of mankind. Both height and chest measurements are, 

 I believe, above the average of most European races. A 

 feature typical of the pure Zulu is the massive thigh and calf, 

 and the great development of these parts is no doubt largely 

 due to the amount of foot-exercise he is accustomed to do. 

 The wrist is another exceptionally strong part of his anatomy, 

 due to his propensity for stick-fencing and fighting. In the 

 women, besides an extraordinary breadth of hip, Ave notice a 

 strength and size of neck quite abnormal to their sex, and 

 caused by their having habituated themselves from early 

 childhood to carrying heavy weights upon the head. 



Anterior to the white man's invasion, there is reason to 



