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generally of this portion of the peninsula, the object of 

 their raids is cattle : when a herd falls into their hands, 

 they fly at the beasts like hyaenas, pierce them with 

 their assegais, hack off huge slices, and devour the meat 

 raw. 



The Warori are small and shrivelled black savages. 

 Their diminutive size is doubtless the effect of scanty 

 food, continued through many generations: the Sultans, 

 however, are a peculiarly fine large race of men. The 

 slave-specimens observed had no distinguishing mark 

 on the teeth ; in all cases, however, two short lines were 

 tattooed across the hollow of the temples. The male 

 dress is a cloak of strung beads, weighing ten or twelve 

 pounds, and covering the shoulders like a European 

 cape. Some wind a large girdle of the same material 

 round the waist. The women wear a bead-kilt extending 

 to the knees, or, if unable to afford it, a wrapper of skin. 

 The favourite weapon is a light, thin, and pliable asse- 

 gai ; they carry a sheath of about a dozen, and throw 

 them with great force and accuracy. The bow is un- 

 known. They usually press to close quarters, each man 

 armed with a long heavy spear. Iron is procured in con- 

 siderable quantities both in Ubena and Urori. The habi- 

 tations are said to be large Tembe, capable of containing 

 400 to 500 souls. The principal articles of diet are 

 milk, meat, and especially fattened dog's flesh— of which 

 the chiefs are inordinately fond, — maize, holcus, and 

 millet. Rice is not grown in these arid districts. They 

 manage their intoxication by means of pombe made of 

 grain and the bhang, which is smoked in gourd-pipes ; 

 they also mix the cannabis with their vegetable food. 

 The Warori are celebrated for power of abstinence; 

 they will march, it is said, six days without eating, and 

 they require to drink but once in the twenty-four 



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