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sound, seems to soothe the player himself. When the instru- 

 ment is played with a calabash (a) as a sounding-board, it 

 emits a greater volume of sound. Pieces of shells and tin 

 are added to make a jingling accompaniment, and the cala- 

 bash (b) is also ornamented. 



(a) Calabash sounding-board. (6) Calabash ornamented with figures. (c) Sansa. 



In musing over the peculiar habit indicated in the name 

 " Baenda pezi " (Go-nakeds), we conjectured that it might be 

 an order similar to that of Freemasons, but no secret 

 society can be found among the native Africans. A sort 

 of brotherhood, called by the Portuguese " Empacasseiros," 

 exists in Angola, but it only enjoins community of right to 

 food in each other's hut ; and the qualification for admission 

 is ability to shoot the empacasso (buffalo or gnu). This is 

 very much the same thing as that which distinguishes the bands 

 into which the young Makololo are formed on circumcision. 

 They thence forward consider each other as in a state of 

 perfect equality, and bound to keep up the discipline of their 

 troop, and, in case of cowardice, to inflict punishment. No 



