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the wearing of spears and knives at a funeral, and 

 harmless reeds were carried instead, or there might 

 have been accidents. There were hundreds of drums 

 and trumpets of ivory or antelopes' horns and 

 whistles of various sorts in the crowd, and the 

 deafening din which they produced was still in 

 progress when we left Beni. 



