no Wanderings in Eastern Africa, 
and he has nothing more to give. Then the cere- 
mony is concluded. It sometimes lasts for many 
days, during which time those who are concerned in 
it run the wildest riot, and day and night continue 
their disgusting orgies. It is a dark picture, but here 
the curtain shall fall. 
Every adult expects to become a member of the 
Kambi, and there are not many who do not attain to 
the honour. Thus it becomes a parliament composed 
of almost the entire people, which has but little to do 
but to govern itself. Its chief occupation is that of 
feasting. It consumes all fines, black-mail, and other 
*'ada" (dues), which often coming in the shape of cattle, 
etc., the order has been termed a society of beef- 
eaters," and it is this privilege which makes the order 
so popular. 
The laws of the country are those of ada " 
(custom). The question with the Wanika is not 
what is right t " but " what is the custom } and 
before this they bow with the utmost servility. Thus 
the government is severely conservative. Reform 
they abominate ; improvement upon the old state of 
things is not allowed. The son must not aspire to 
anything better than his father has had before him. 
If a man dares to improve the style of his hut, to 
make a larger doorway than is customary ; if he 
should wear a finer or different style of dress to that 
of his fellows, he is instantly fined ; and he becomes, 
too, the object of such scathing ridicule, that he were 
a bold man indeed who would venture to excite it 
against himself. 
The penal code is based upon the requirements of 
the Kambi. As has been pointed out, it is the 
