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BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
A YAO OF ZOMBA 
inextinguishable merriment. Finding himself too much laughed at he made 
over the clothes, as a very special honour, to his head wife who is quite a heroine 
in her way. This woman used at one time to accompany him on most of our 
campaigns, even insisting on going into battle, till one day she was wounded 
and this procedure was discovered and immediately put a stop to. It was found 
out in this way. When going into action at Kawinga’s one of the officers of the 
Indian contingent noticed a strange being charging in line with the Sikhs. It 
