MAGICIANS TORTURED. 



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cranium between two stiff pieces of wood which are 

 gradually tightened by cords till the brain bursts out 

 from the sutures. For women they practise a pecu- 

 liarly horrible kind of impalement. These atrocities 

 continue until the chief recovers or dies : at the com- 

 mencement of his attack, in one household eighteen 

 souls, male and female, had been destroyed ; should 

 his illness be protracted, scores will precede him to 

 the grave, for the Mchawi or magician must surely 

 die. 



The Wanyamwezi will generally sell their criminals 

 and captives ; when want drives, they part with their 

 wives, their children, and even their parents. For 

 economy, they import their serviles from Ujiji and the 

 adjoining regions ; from the people lying towards the 

 south-east angle of the Tanganyika Lake, as the 

 Watipa, the Wapoka, and the Wagara ; and from the 

 Nyanza races, and the northern kingdoms of Karagwah, 

 Uganda, and Unyoro. 



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