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they are absent I will briefly explain what in 

 these regions a Mganga is. 



The Mganga in Angola Xganga, called by 

 the Arabs Bassar (seer) and Tabib (physician), and 

 by us priest, magician, rain-doctor, and medicine- 

 man, combines, as these translations show, medi- 

 cal with supernatural powers : he may be consid- 

 ered the embryo of a sacerdotal order amongst the 

 embryo civilizations of man. Thus Siberia has 

 Shamans, and Greenland Angekoks; Xorth Amer- 

 ica Medicine-men, and South America Pages : the 

 Galla believes in his Kalishah, the Kru Republic 

 in her Deyabos, the Congo in Petish-men, and the 

 Cape Kafirs in witch doctors, who, with certain of 

 the missionaries, have ever been the chief origin- 

 ators of our colonial troubles. In Eastern Africa, 

 from the Somali country southwards, the rains, 

 so wearisome to the traveller, are a boon to the 

 savage, who, especially in the sub -tropical regions 

 and those beyond the path of the sun, sees dming 

 droughts his children and cattle dying of hunger 

 and thirst. Eain-charming is the popular belief 

 of Africa, where the new comer's reception will 

 generally depend upon the state of the weather. 

 The demand produces a supply of intellectuals, 

 who, for the consideration of a lazy monastic kind 



