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However, to return to the subject of the Wa-caga. 
Though having little religious belief, they are very 
superstitious, and have great dread of sorcery. Large 
trees are supposed to be much affected by ghosts, and 
for this reason are spared by the axe. Their dead 
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Fig. 76.—A Caga Forge. 
are buried in these isolated forests, sometimes in hollow 
trees, sometimes in the ground. Hyenas generally 
dig them up and eat them—this being little cared for 
by the survivors, as is the case among the Masai and 
the Wa-taveita. 
The Wa-caga are clever smiths, and forge all kinds 
