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ana women object to bigamy, in fact, I think they 

 rather approve of it, while the more wives a man 

 possesses, the less work there will be of necessity, for 

 each to do. In all establishments there is a chief 

 wife, and her offspring, whether she be number i 

 or number 3 in the order of marriage, is heir to 

 the father's position in the tribe. It also ought 

 to be known that each wife and her children have 

 a hut to themselves ; their habitations being sepa- 

 rated by a small fencing. Each woman has also 

 a garden, and not unfrequently cattle, which she 

 keeps for the individual use of herself and her 

 husband, none of the other wives having the right 

 to interfere with, or possess themselves of these 

 supplies. 



BELIEF IN GHOSTS. 



The reader, on perusing this, will doubtless say, " the 

 interior of Africa is a strange place for ghosts to 

 have got to." No doubt the ghost-yarns that are to 

 be heard there, owe their origin to a European 

 source. Whether or no, Hottentot and Boer, 

 Griqua and Colonial trader equally believe in them, 

 and so thoroughly is this credence in supernatural 

 beings ingrafted in them, that to express the smallest 

 amount of scepticism of their truth would inevitably 

 entail upon you a storm of indignation. 



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