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face, " the Sultan becomes nothing. He who says other words 

 is a liar. There !" 



" How do you bury a Mgogo?" 



" His legs are tied together, his right arm to his body, and his 

 left is put under his head. He is then rolled on his left side in 

 the grave. His cloth he wore during his life is spread over him. 

 We put the earth over him, and put thorn bushes over it to pre- 

 vent the hyenas from getting at him. A woman is put on her 

 right side in a grave apart from the man." 



"In cases of murder, what do you do to the man who kills 

 another?" 



" The murderer has to pay fifty cows. If he is too poor to 

 pay, the Sultan gives his permission to the murdered man's friends 

 or relatives to kill him. If they catch him, they tie him to a 

 tree and throw spears at him one at a time first ; they then 

 spring on him, cut his head off, then his arms, and limbs, and 

 scatter them about the country." 



" How do you punish a thief?" 



"If he is found stealing, he is killed at once, and nothing is 

 said about it. Is he not a thief?" 



" But suppose you do not know who the thief is?" 



" If a man is brought before us accused of stealing, we kill a 

 chicken. If the entrails are white, he is innocent if yellow, he 

 is guilty." 



" Do you believe in witchcraft?" 



" Of course we do, and punish the man with death if he 

 bewitches cattle, or stops rain." 



The Wakimbu are something like the Wasagarain appearance, 

 and also in disposition, only much more industrious. They are 

 the best agriculturists in Africa, and though their country is far 

 from being the richest, by their industrious tillage they make it 

 the most productive. But they are arrant cowards. Their 

 bomas communal dwellings are so well constructed that it 

 would require heavy cannon to break them down. They do little 

 or no hunting, but are skilful in constructing traps for elephants 

 and buffaloes, in which they frequently catch lions and leopards. 



