CHAP. VI.] 



EANDAS AND OMAKURU. 



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origin or " eancla." There are six or seven eanclas, 

 and each eanda has some pecuUar rites. The tribes 

 do not correspond with the eandas, as men of every 

 descent are to be found in each tribe. The chiefs of 

 tribes have some kind of sacerdotal authority — more so 

 than a military one. They bless the oxen ; and their 

 daughters sprinkle the fattest ones with a brush dipped 

 in water every morning as they waUi out of the kraal. 



DAMARA WOMAN. 



They have no expectation of a future state ; yet they 

 praj' over the graves of their parents for oxen and 

 sheep, — fat ones, and of the right colour. There is 

 hardly a particle of romance, or aifection, or poetry, 

 in their character or creed ; but they are a greedy, 

 heartless, sillj' set of savages. Independently of the 



