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with the blood of the animal. The ox after enduring 
this torment is killed, and those who are married and 
have children, as in the other case, are the only par- 
takers of the feast. 
When a young man is attached to a female, and wishes 
to marry her, he and his companions take an ox and 
place it before her house. If she allow the ox to be 
killed, it is considered as giving her consent to the union, 
and the parties are immediately regarded as married 
persons. It occasionally happens that the ox is brought 
three or four times before her approval is obtained. 
Cupido, who resides at the Coranna town of Mobatee, 
has seen the young men and the ox pelted away with 
stones by the female herself ; yet the next time probably 
she will give her consent to the union. 
When a chief man dies he is buried in the cattle-kraal, 
or inclosure, with his head to the east; his grave being 
filled up, the cattle are brought and driven over it to 
tread it down, so that the place may not be discovered. 
Common people are buried in the fields, and stones are 
thrown over their graves. 
Their usual method of killing cattle seems very cruel, 
they rip open the belly , and thrust in the hand to get hold 
of a particular entrail near the heart, which pulling out 
causes immediate death. 
They allow a plurality of wives, but Cupido only 
knew of two men who had each two wives. 
They are timid when opposed to Bushmen, but bold 
in their attacks against any of the Bootchuana nations. 
As the different tribes of Corannas, which are numerous, 
assist each other when attacked, it is rare for any of the 
other nations to become the assailants. 
