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the station with a fine hoy, an albino. The father had 

 ordered her to throw him away; but she clung to her 

 offspring for many years. He was remarkably intelligent 

 for his age. The pupil of the eye was of a pink color, and 

 the eye itself was unsteady in vision. The hair, or vathei 

 wool, was yellow, and the features were those common 

 among the Bechuanas. After I left the place, the mother 

 is said to have become tired of living apart from the father, 

 who refused to have her while she retained the son. She 

 took him out one day and killed him close to the village of 

 Mabotsa, and nothing was done to her by the authorities. 

 Fx-om having met with no albinos in Londa, I suspect they 

 are there also put to death. We saw one dwarf only in 

 Londa, and brands on him showed he had once been a 

 slave; and there is one dwarf woman at Linyanti. The 

 general absence of deformed persons is partly owing to 

 their destruction in infancy, and partly to the mode of life 

 being a natural one so far as ventilation and food are con- 

 cerned. They use but few unwholesome mixtures as con- 

 diments, and, though their undress exposes them to the 

 vicissitudes of the temperature, it does not harbor vomites. 

 It was observed that, when smallpox and measles visited 

 the country, they were most severe on the half-castes who 

 were clothed. In several tribes, a child which is said to 

 "tlola" (transgress) is put to death. "Tlolo," or trans- 

 gression, is ascribed to several curious cases. A child who 

 cut the upper front teeth before the under was always put 

 to death among the Bakaa, and, I believe, also among the 

 Bakwains. In some tribes, a case of twins render's one of 

 them liable to death; and an ox which, while lying in the 

 oen, beats the ground with its tail, is treated in the same 

 way. It is thought to be calling death to visit the tribe. 

 When I was coming through Londa, my men carried a 

 great number of fowls, of a larger breed than any they 

 had at home. If one crowed before midnight, it had been 

 guilty of "tlolo," and was killed. The men often carried 



them sitting on their guns, and, if one began to crow in a 



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