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The Negroes of Senegal and the Hottentots use wooden mortars. At Natal and amongst the Amazulu Kafirs, the work is done with slabs and rollers like those described above. In the Eastern World this well-known fermentation is generally called "Buzab," whence the old German word "busen" and our "booze." The addition of a dose of garlic converts it into an emetic.
The Western Pacific and New Guinea, 2d. ed., 284 pp. John Murray. London, 1887. Sproat, G.M. Scenes and Studies of Savage Life. 317 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1868. Wissler, Clark. The American Indian. 435 pp. D.C. McMurtrie. Jour. Anthr. Inst., viii, 1879. Callaway, Rev. Canon Henry. Religious System of the Amazulu. 448 pp. Trübner & Co. London, 1870.
'Thou shalt stand face to face with Umslopogaas, of the blood of Chaka, of the people of the Amazulu, a captain in the regiment of the Nkomabakosi, as many have done before, and bow thyself to Inkosi-kaas, as many have done before. Ay, laugh on, laugh on! tomorrow night shall the jackals laugh as they crunch thy ribs.
"What is your name, boy?" he said to me as a big rich man speaks to one who is little and poor. "Mopo is my name," I answered. "And what is the name of your people?" I told him the name of my tribe, the Langeni tribe. "Very well, Mopo; now I will tell you my name. My name is Chaka, son of Senzangacona, and my people are called the Amazulu. And I will tell you something more.
In many parts of Africa the serpent is looked upon as the incarnation of deceased relatives; among the Amazulu, as among the Betsileo of Madagascar, certain species are assigned as the abode of certain classes; the Masai, on the other hand, regard each species as the habitat of a particular family of the tribe.
At length, in answering salutation, she lifted the little wand of white horn that she carried and turned slowly as though to leave the place, so that now the moonlight glistened on her lovely hair. Then, fearing perhaps lest she should depart or vanish away, the man seated in the centre said in a low half-awed voice: "I am Dingaan, King of the Amazulu. Say, White One, who art thou?"
"Nay," answered another, "it is the Ehlose, the guardian ghost of the Amazulu that appears and dies." "Not so," broke in a third, "that light shows the Amaboona travelling from the south-west to be eaten up in the blackness of our impis." "Such a star runs ever before the death of king. It fell the night ere the Black One died," murmured a fourth as though he spoke to himself.
'Ah, ah, he cried, in mockery, to the Elmoran, 'it is thou whom I talked with last night the Lygonani! the Herald! the capturer of little girls he who would kill a little girl! And thou didst hope to stand man to man and face to face with Umslopogaas, an Induna of the tribe of the Maquilisini, of the people of the Amazulu? Behold, thy prayer is granted!
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