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damage appears to follow. ^ Du Chaillu describes what he calls 

 * blood feuds ' in the Shekiani tribe ; ' frequently a dozen villages 

 are involved, . . . the killing and robbing goes on for months and 

 even for years '.^ Again, ' when war has rarely broken out in 

 the country [of the Bakalai] there is no rest or safety. No man 

 or woman in any village can take a step in any direction, day or 

 night, without fear of death. ... At last whole districts are de- 

 populated ; those who are not killed desert their villages.' ^ 

 Burrows, describing the tribes of the Upper Welle district, says 

 that they all hve ' in a perpetual state of internecine warfare '.^ 

 War and human sacrifice have a perceptible effect upon the 

 numbers of the Banyala ; ^ fighting is .frequent among the 

 Bambala, but is not very sanguinary.^ Of the Bahuana we hear 

 that * wars are frequent, and in some cases last for years ',' of the 

 Bayaka that, though ' frequent ', wars ' do not seem to have 

 any appreciable effect upon the population '.^ The Baganda are 

 a warlike people, and fighting occurs yearly with the neighbour- 

 ing tribes. Though a regular cause of the loss of life, such wars 

 are not so serious as the intermittent civil wars ' which also 

 broke out from time to time in Uganda between rival princes 

 who laid claim to the throne. These latter wars were by far the 

 most disastrous that could happen to the country ; and during 

 the few weeks they lasted, untold damage was done and a groat 

 loss of life took place.' ^ In this district the presence of the Masai 

 tribe was a continuous source of murderous war.^'' Among the 

 Akanda ' no warriors but those who had killed a Masai were 

 supposed to be able to marry ' ; ^^ between the Akikuyu and the 

 Masai perpetual war was waged.^^ Of the tribes of the Baringo 

 district it is said that they are all good fighters, and that war is 

 a sanguinary affair.^^ The pastoral Bahima are, on the other 

 hand, a peaceable people.^* ' It is doubtful whether (in Central 

 Africa) great loss of life occurs in any of the wars among the 

 natives.' ^^ In South Africa the mihtary qualities of the Zulus 



1 Weeks, Congo Cannibals, -p. 222. - Du Chaillu, loc. cit., p. 161. ^ Ibid., 



p. 386. * Burrows, loc. cit., p. 38. For the Azanda and Abandia see Hute- 



reau, loc. cit., p. 36 and p. 44. * Coquilhat, Haul Congo, p. 287 ; Overbergh 



and Jonghe, loc. cit., No. 1, p. 413. ^ Torday, loc. cit., pp. 97 ff. ; Torday 



and Joyce, J. A. I., vol. xxxv, p. 416. ' Torday and Joyce, J. A. I., 



vol. xxxvi, p. 289. ' Ibid., vol. xxxv, p. 49. ' Roscoe, Baganda, p. 346. 



"• Hollis, Masai, passim. i' Hobley, Aktimha, p. 45. See also Dundaa, 



J. A. I., vol. xliii, p. 505. '- Routledge, Prehistoric People, p. 13. " Dundas, 



J. A. I., vol. xl, p. 51. " Roscoe, J. A. I., vol. xxxvii, p. 108. " John- 



ston, British Central Africa, p. 470. 



