254 T\[\-: ]!A(;a.\.\-\(i.\ ok ma-lai;(i( h. 



MOSWARA TAU: \'lSlTOR : 



105. Matoha! 105. Sotlie Matoba! 



106. ,, 106. Tsoai yaiic! Tsoai yaiie! 



107. „ 107. Ke dya madikana. 



108. ,, 108. Ka lietola kcto. 



109. ,, 109. Keto di shalang. 

 no. ,, no. Di shalcla shoatshc. 



111. ,, 111. PJioa! ( .Spittino' ). 



112. ,, 112. Kc dilo tslia baiiiia. 



113. „ 113. Nkc di fclc. 



If a stranger does not know tliis fornuila he is not admitted 

 to the enclosure. 



When the time of the initiation ceremonies is drawing- to a 

 close, the following curious custom is observed: The Mauiat- 

 shoana collect a pot full of ashes from the sacred fire, a few 

 handfuls of hair from the skins of different runnials. and some 

 beeswax. These ingredients are thoroughly mixed, and then 

 formed into small cakes shaped like the excreta of the hvc'ena. 

 Some of these cakes are secretly placed in the fireplace of the 

 kraal at night, and the rest are strewn across the Mphato in a 

 line from east to w'est.* Next morning, when the women of 

 the kraal see these cakes they say : " A hy?ena has been here 

 during the night," and so the children are frightened, and do 

 not wander far away from their homes. The hya?na com- 

 monly takes the place of the European bogey-man in the native 

 homes. 



The final ceremony of arraxing the newl}-initiated men in 

 skins, and the return to the kraal, appears to be identical with 

 that which will be described in a later pai)er on the Sekukuni 

 rites. 



APPENDIX. 



Note I. — -The image of the crocodile represented in Plate 

 6 is the one in use at the present time (1915). The original 

 image, mentioned by Rider Haggard in his preface to " The 

 Children of the ^list," was looted when Malaboch surrendered 

 to the Republican forces in 1894. and ma}' now be seen in the 

 Transvaal Museum. Pretoria. 



Note II. — The comparative >tudy of Ethnology reveals an 

 extraordinary similarity in the practices of uncivilized man in 

 different parts of the world. As an illustration of this, we 

 may take the use of the " fire drill " for producing new fire on 

 ceremonial occasions, and the custom of never allowing a fire 

 to die out. Among the Bagananoa these customs are observed 

 not only during the initiation rites, but also on other occasions. 

 The fire which burns in the Khoro of the Chief is extinguished 



* Cf. Pliiri. ceremony of Sekukuni land. Also see Appendix, note 2. 



