Africa . TOILET OF A BEUHUAXA BELLE. To face jmge 450. THE SOUTHERN BANTU TRIBES. 451 themselves with harmless jokes and indifference to the more serious concerns of lifeis also apparent in their views of a future state, and intheir less sinister ideas on the subject of no doubt, like others, believe firmly in witches andsorcery, and have their Nyaka, or their fanaticism rarely reaches the fearful height it. STREET IN A BECHUANA TOWN. does amongst the Ivhosa and Zulu Kafirs, nor are horribleexecutions on account of sorcery of common occurren
Africa . TOILET OF A BEUHUAXA BELLE. To face jmge 450. THE SOUTHERN BANTU TRIBES. 451 themselves with harmless jokes and indifference to the more serious concerns of lifeis also apparent in their views of a future state, and intheir less sinister ideas on the subject of no doubt, like others, believe firmly in witches andsorcery, and have their Nyaka, or their fanaticism rarely reaches the fearful height it. STREET IN A BECHUANA TOWN. does amongst the Ivhosa and Zulu Kafirs, nor are horribleexecutions on account of sorcery of common occurrenceamongst them. The thought of their condition afterdeath gives them little concern, though they believe in theexistence of a class of supernatural beings, the Ba-rimi,in some mysterious way connected with the spirits of thedeparted. Allied to the Bechuanas, but situated in the extremenorth-west, are a people known by the colonial name ofDamara, but who call themselves O-va-Hcrcro. These areto be distinguished from another tribe, the Hill Damaras 452 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. whose descent has never been clearly ascertained, butwho originally had certainly nothing in common with theO-va-Herero. These degraded Hill or Berg-Damarasname themselves Houquain or real men; but theNamaquas who have enslaved them, contemptuously callthem Ghou-clamap, or men made of dirt. Both in theiroutward appearance and in all other respects the pureO-va-Herero are
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