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hemp are both cultivated, and both are smoked. Both sexes smoke 

 tobacco in pipes, and also take.it in the form of- snuff. Hemf is smoked 

 in a hubble-bubble pipe of a form found throughout Eastern Africa, which 



398. TAME FEMALE OSTRICHES IN MUMIa'S VILLAGE, KAVIHO-NDO 



is usually made out of a gourd. Only men and unmarried women smoke 

 hemp, as it is thought to be injurious to women who are to bear children. 

 The Kavirondo cultivate the sesamum and make oil from its seeds, which 

 they burn in little clay lam.ps strongly resembling in form those of Egypt 

 and Eome.* 



If a chief has many cattle they usually sleep at night in a small 

 kraal within the enclosure of his village, and close to his own hut. 

 Favourite or valuable cows may, however, share a hut with their owner, 

 and a certain number of goats invariably do so. In Northern Kavirondo 

 circular sheep-folds with thatched roofs are always made to contain sheep 

 in close proximity to the chiefs hut. Cattle are killed in the following 

 manner: The ox is secured by a rope being i tied round its neck; it is 

 then deftly felled by a blow from a club on the back of its skull, after 



* The possession of these lamps is a remarkable feature of the Bantu Kavirondo. 

 The lamps may be, like the blue beads, a relic of an ancient commerce with Egypt 

 by w.ay of Somaliland. 



