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THE KILIMANJARO EXPEDITION. 
My readers may possibly have been disappointed to 
find in this chapter so little information as to peculiar 
customs or beliefs exhibited by the people it described. 
I can only say this, want is not owing to any lack of 
probing or questioning on my part. I have come to 
the conclusion that whatever religious notions, mystic 
ceremonies, initiatory practices which the inhabitants 
of Kilima-njaro may have retained originally from 
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Fig. 78.— A Caga House* 
their ancestors and shared with their other existing 
relatives, have at the present time disappeared, or 
have been worn away by constant changes of abode, 
massacres, flights, and all the incidents of an anxious 
struggle for existence, which the fluctuating peoples of 
Eastern Equatorial Africa have, for the last few cen¬ 
turies, undergone* Those who may have read what I 
have previously written respecting African races on 
the Congo, in Angola,.and else'where,, will perceive that 
