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is quite equal single-handed to the capture of his 
wife, and certainly not disposed to reward his friends 
in the same manner as the less exclusive M-taita 
husband. On several occasions when I observed a 
marriage ceremony during my residence in Caga, I 
found it consisted (after the purchase of the woman 
had been privately arranged) in the husband carrying 
off his wife pig-aback, while the relatives and friends 
pursued with shrieks of laughter, affecting to try and 
rescue the screaming girl; but, of course, all this was 
simulated, and a survival of past customs,, for nowa¬ 
days a man only gets his bride when he has settled 
the bargain previously with his future father-in-law. 
In such states as Mosi, where there is a relatively 
large standing army, the chief will generally distribute 
the female slaves captured in war among his soldiers, 
and dower them himself with cattle. Thus his soldiers 
become indebted to him for their domestic happiness, 
and are consequently very much attached to the 
person of their monarch, who is, to them, the sole 
dispenser of benefits. 
heal immorality hardly exists among the Wa-caga; 
Mohammedan influence not having as yet initiated 
them into vicious thoughts and ways. We should be 
apt to call, from our point of view, their nakedness and 
almost animal unconsciousness of shame indelicate, but 
it is rather, when one gets used to it, a pleasing sur¬ 
vival of the old innocent days when prurient thoughts 
were absent from the mind of man. The Wa-caga 
cannot be accused of indecency, for they make no 
effort to be decent, but walk about as Nature made 
them, except when it is chilly, or if they wish to look 
unusually smart, in which cases they throw cloth or 
skins around their shoulders. 
There are, as far as I can ascertain, no initiatory 
