430 GREAT NAMAQUA COUNTRY. 
[1813. 
the game is brought within a small compass, when 
they attack and kill them with their assagays or spears. 
Old age is very common among them, and you will 
frequently meet persons so infirm by age, that they are 
incapable of moving. The eldest son in the family in- 
herits all his father s property : if any other brother 
obtains any thing, it must be by dint of fighting What 
is a very unfeeling custom is, that the poor widow gets 
nothing. Their only liquor, as among the Bushrnen, 
is made from honey. 
When their sons are declared to be men, they erect 
a shade, kill an animal, and tie its fat on his head and 
round his neck, which according to custom he must 
wear till it gradually rots and falls off. They likewise 
cut several strokes on his breast with a sharp instru- 
ment. They also collect all the milk belonging to the 
kraal, with which they make a feast in honour of the 
occasion : after which he remains eight days under the 
shade, when they have a dance. The entrails of the 
animal which was killed at the commencement of the 
ceremony, being dried and pounded into a powder, are 
now mixed with water, with which he is rubbed all 
over, and he is then declared to be a man in the pre- 
sence of the whole kraal. During the ceremony he is 
allowed only to drink cow s milk : should he taste any 
other food, all that is past of the ceremony must be re- 
peated. He who does not submit to this ceremony eats 
only with women, and is despised. When a man, for 
the first time, kills an elephant, sea-cow, or rhinoceros, 
