Moore's travels. 
generally married very young ; the price of one 
is two cows, two iron bars, and two hundred 
Kolla nuts. The marriage feast is open to the 
whole neighbourhood, and generally continues 
for three or four days. Each wife lives in a se- 
parate hut, all the contents of which, both furni- 
ture and provisions, being produced by her indus- 
try, are considered as entirely her property, with 
which the husband has no right to interfere. 
Every person who dies is considered as having 
met his fate, either through the agency of witches, 
or as a punishment for some vow which he has vio- 
lated. One man having vowed never to part with 
a particular male slave, was afterwards, through 
the necessities of his family, obliged to sell him ; 
yet, however urgent the motive was, it did not 
prevent his sudden death from being imputed to 
this perjury. Among their superstitious practices 
may be inentioned the mode of trial, by making 
the accused dip his hands into scalding water ; 
when, if the natural effect be produced, he is im- 
mediately concluded guilty. An English captain 
was so far enamoured of the native customs, as to 
adopt this mode of judicial investigation. Having 
missed a gun, he caused his crew to put their 
hands into boiling water, by which, it seems, 
" they scalded themselves miserably." As he 
was triumphing, however, in the success of this 
mode of detection, he unexpectedly discovered 
