chap, v.-] * EXHUMATION OF THE DEAD. 201) 
quarters in connexion with the great road, and the 
entrance of each kraal is a small archway in the 
strong iron-wood fence sufficiently wide to admit one 
ox at a time. Suspended from the arch is a bell, 
formed of the shell of the Dolape palm-nut, against 
which every animal must strike either its horns or 
back, on entrance. Every tinkle of the bell announces 
the passage of an ox into the kraal, and they are 
thus counted every evening when brought home from 
pasture. 
I had noticed, during the march from Latome, that 
the vicinity of every town was announced by heaps of 
human remains. Bones and skulls formed a Golgotha 
within a quarter of a mile of every village. Some of 
these were in earthemware pots, generally broken; 
others lay strewn here and there; while a heap in 
the centre showed that some form had originally been 
observed in their disposition. This was explained by 
an extraordinary custom most rigidly observed by the 
Latookas. Should a man be killed in battle the body 
is allowed to remain where it fell, and is devoured by 
the vultures and hyenas; but should he die a natural 
death, he or she is buried in a shallow grave within 
a few feet of his own door, in the little courtyard that 
surrounds each dwelling. Funeral dances are then 
kept up in memory of the dead for several weeks; at 
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