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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. V. 
that had been captured and were being driven in. 
Head-quarter camp had followed us up from Butter- 
worth, and we joined it at the Dabagas. The next 
day the paramount chief of all Kafirland, Hintza, sur¬ 
rendered himself to the Governor, and came into our 
camp, with a number of his head councillors and others. 
It is customary on these occasions to present the great 
chief with one or more head of cattle for immediate 
slaughter, according to the number of his retinue. On 
this occasion one only was presented; and the Kafirs’ 
mode of killing it deserves to be recorded, as showing 
the savage nature of these men. The great ox was 
caught and pulled to the ground, while some of the 
menials were preparing a fire ; the front and hind feet 
of the animal were tied together and stretched forwards 
and backwards by men pulling at them, the ox being 
turned and kept on his back. A Kafir c wizard,’ or 
doctor, as they are sometimes called, plunged his 
assaigai into the bullock’s stomach, making the hole 
sufficiently large, on withdrawing the blade of the 
spear, to admit of a man’s hand and arm. The fat, or 
covering of the inside, immediately protruded, and this 
was pulled out,, cut off, and thrown over the blazing fire ; 
it frizzled up and became cooked almost instantly, 
and was then handed to the chief, who partook of it 
and handed portions to his head men. Not until this 
ceremony took place was the process of killing the ox 
