OJSTE OF TWINS KILLED. 



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Dwarf battle-axes are also seen, but not so frequently 

 as amongst the western races on the Tanganyika Lake. 

 The shield in Unyamwezi resembles that of Usagara ; 

 it is however rarely used. 



There are but few ceremonies amongst the Wanyam- 

 wezi. A woman about to become a mother retires 

 from the hut to the jungle, and after a few hours 

 returns w T ith a child wrapped in goatskin upon her 

 back, and probably carrying a load of firewood on her 

 head. The medical treatment of the Arabs with salt 

 and various astringents for forty days is here unknown. 

 Twins are not common as amongst the Kafir race, and 

 one of the two is invariably put to death ; the universal 

 custom amongst these tribes is for the mother to wrap 

 a gourd or calabash in skins, to place it to sleep w T ith, 

 and to feed it like, the survivor. If the wife die with- 

 out issue, the widower claims from her parents the sum 

 paid to them upon marriage ; if she leave a child, the 

 property is preserved for it. When the father can 

 afford it, a birth is celebrated by copious libations of 

 pombe. Children are suckled till the end of the second 

 year. Their only education is in the use of the bow and 

 arrow ; after the fourth summer the boy begins to learn 

 archery with diminutive weapons, which are gradually 

 increased in strength. Names are given without cere- 

 mony; and as in the countries to the eastward, many 

 of the heathens have been called after their Arab 

 visitors. Circumcision is not practised by this people. 

 The children in Unyamwezi generally are the property 

 not of the uncle but of the father, who can sell or slay 

 them without blame ; in Usukuma or the northern 

 lands, however, succession and inheritance are claimed 

 by the nephews or sisters' sons. The Wanyamwezi 

 have adopted the curious practice of leaving property 



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