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hemp are both cultivated, and both are smoked. Both sexes smoke 

 tobacco in pipes, and also take it in the form of snuff. Hemp is smoked 

 in a hubble-bubble pipe of a form found throughout Eastern Africa, which 



398. TAME FEMALE USTKK'HES l.\ .MUMIa's VILLAGE, KAVIKONDO 



is usually made out of a gourd, (hily men and unmarried women smoke 

 hemp, as it is thought to be injurious to women who are to bear children. 

 The Kavirondo cultivate the sesamum and make [oil from its seeds, which 

 they burn in lltUe day lamps strongly resembling in form those of Egypt 

 and Kome.* 



If a chief has many ca.ttle they usually sleep at night in a small 

 kraal within the enclosure of his village, and close to his own hut. 

 Favourite or valuable cows may, howe\er, share a hut with their owner, 

 and a certain number of goats invariably do so. In Northern Kavirondo 

 circular sheep-folds with thatched roofs are always made to ctmtain slieep 

 in close proximity to the chiefs hut. Cattle are killed in the following 

 manner: The ox is secured by a rope being ^tied round its neck; it is 

 then deftly felled by a blow from a club on the back of its skull, after 



* The possession of these lanii)s is a remarkable feature of the Bantu Kavirondo. 

 The lamps may be, like the blue beads, a relic of an ancient connnerce with Egypt 

 by way of Somalilaiul. 



