Chap. XXVIIL “ TLOLO”—IDEA OF FEMALE BEAUTY. 
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there also put to death. We saw one dwarf only in Londa, and 
brands on him showed he had once been a slave; and there is one 
dwarf woman at Linyanti. The general absence of deformed 
persons, is partly owing to their destruction in infancy, and partly 
to the mode of life being a natural one, so far as ventilation 
and food are concerned. They use but few unwholesome mix¬ 
tures as condiments, and, though their undress exposes them to 
the vicissitudes of the temperature, it does not harbour vomites. 
It was observed, that, when smallpox and measles visited the 
country, they were most severe on the half-castes who were 
clothed. In several tribes a child which is said to “tlola,” 
transgress, is put to death. ‘‘ Tlolo,” or transgression, is ascribed 
to several cmious cases. A clhld who cut the upper front teeth 
before the under, was always put to death among the Bakaa, 
and, I believe, also among the Bakwains. In some tribes, a case 
of twins renders one of them liable to death; and an ox, which, 
wliile lying in the pen, beats the ground with its tail, is treated m 
the same way. It is thought to be calling death to visit the 
tribe. When I was coming through Londa, my men earned a 
great number of fowls, of a larger breed than any they had at 
home. If one crowed before midnight, it had been guilty of 
tlolo,” and was killed. The men often carried them sitting on 
then guns, and, if one began to crow in a forest, the owner would 
give it a beating, by way of teaclnng it not to be guilty of crowmg 
at unseasonable hours. 
The women here are in the habit of piercing the upper lip, and 
gradually enlarging the orifice until they can insert a shell. The 
lip then appears drawn out beyond the perpendicular of the nose, 
and gives them a most ungainly aspect. Sekwebu remarked, 
“ These women want to make their mouths hl^e those of ducks 
and indeed it does appear as if they had the idea that female 
beauty of lip had been attained by the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus 
alone. This custom prevails tliroughout the country of the 
Maravi, and no one could see it without confessing, that fasliion 
had never led women to a freak more mad. We had rains now 
every day, and considerable cloudiness, but the sun often burst 
tlrrough with scorching intensity. All call out against it then, 
saying, 0 the sun! that is rain again.” It was worth noticing 
that my companions never complained of the heat while on the 
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