560 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
Captain Cook found that the men of the tribes seen in Australia 
wore “bracelets of small cord, wound two or three times about the 
upper part of their arm.! 
‘“‘ Whilst their [the Congo natives’| children are young, these people 
bind them about with certain superstitious cords made by the wizards, 
who, likewise, teach them to utter a kind of spell while they are bind- 
ing them.”? Father Merolla adds that sometimes as many as four of 
these cords are worn. . 
Bosman remarks upon the negroes of the Gold Coast as follows: ‘‘The 
child is no sooner born than the priest (here called Feticheer or Consoe) 
is sent for, who binds a parcel of ropes and coral and other trash about 
the head, body, arms, and legs of the infant; after which he exorcises, 
according to their accustomed manner, by which they believe it is 
armed against all sickness and ill accidents.” * 
In the picture of a native of Uzinza, Speke shows us a man wearing 
a cord from the right shoulder to the left hip.* 
In the picture of Lunga Mandi’s son, in Cameron’s Across Africa,° 
that young chief is represented as wearing a cord across his body from 
his right shoulder to the left side. 
On the Lower Congo, at Stanley Pool, Stanley met a young chief: 
“From his shoulders depended a long cloth of check pattern, while over 
one shoulder was a belt, to which was attached a queer medley of small 
gourds containing snuff and various charms, which he called his Inkisi.”° 
This no doubt was a medicine cord. “ According to the custom, which 
seems to belong to all Africa, as a sign of grief the Dinka wear a cord 
round the neck.”* “The Mateb, or baptismal cord, is de rigueur, and 
worn when nothing else is. It formed the only clothing of the young at 
Seramba, but was frequently added to with amulets, sure safeguards 
against soreery.”’ The Abyssinian Christians wear a blue cord as a sign 
of having been baptized, and ‘baptism and the blue cord are, in the 
Abyssinian mind, inseparable.”® ‘The cord," or mateb, without which 
nobody ean be really said in Abyssinia to be respectable.”!! It further 
resembles the Apache medicine cord, inasmuch as it is ‘a blue cord 
around the neck.” Thebaptismal cords are made of ‘blue floss silk.” ° 
THE MAGIC WIND KNOTTED CORDS OF THE LAPPS AND OTHERS. 
“The navigators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have 
related many wonderful stories about the magic of the Finns or Finno 
1 Hawkesworth, Voyages, vol. 3, p. 229. 
? Voyage to Congo, in Pinkerton'’s Voyages, vol. 16, p. 287. 
Pinkerton, Voyages, vol. 16, p. 388. 
4Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, p. 125. 
5 London, 1877. vol. 2, p. 181. 
°Stanley, Through the Dark Continent, vol. 2, p. 330. 
7Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, London, 1873, vol. 1, p. 154. 
’ Winstanley, Abyssinia, vol. 2, p. 68. 
*’ This cord is worn about the meck. Tbid., p. 257. 
 Thid., vol. 1, p. £ 
"Tbid., vol. 2, p.1 
'2Tbid, p. 165. 
138Thid, p. 292. 
