small distended bladders being also fixed among 

 them ; they also rub the whole body over with 

 the red pigment. 



This custom of colouring the body red is like- 

 wise observed by women during pregnancy, and 

 for some months after the birth of the child, and 

 when recovering from some diseases. The red 

 ochre is not found in this neighbourhood, but is 

 brought from a distance. 



Women carry their children on their backs, 

 their little legs being stretched across the mother's 

 hips ; in this position they are supported by a 

 skin, tied by the fore and hind legs under the 

 child's legs and over his shoulders, leaving the 

 head swaying about helplessly with every move- 

 ment of the mother's body. They even hoe the 

 ground and chop wood with a child (perhaps but 

 two or three weeks old) slung in this fashion, 

 and I have often marvelled that the infant is not 

 shaken to pieces, as the woman raises the hoe or 

 hatchet with both hands first above her head, 

 then bends nearly to the ground to strike the 

 blow. 



