. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. (»'/.-?'. they think it resembles him and if it is really his child. Curiously enough, the Lendu childreoi are seldom seen running naked, in contradistinc- tion to all the surround- ing races, where whateve
. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. (»'/.-?'. they think it resembles him and if it is really his child. Curiously enough, the Lendu childreoi are seldom seen running naked, in contradistinc- tion to all the surround- ing races, where whatever degree of clothing may be woru by adults, children almost to the age of puberty usually go naked. Circumcision amongst the Lendu takes place at the age of seven or eight years without any special feast or ceremony. The opera- tion is never carried out in the village, but in a copse or wood or in high grass. The part re- moved is carefully buried in the ground, and the boy must remain away from the village until the wound has healed. As regards ftiiTmi cere- 306. AN MBUBA OF THE ITUEI FOEEST, WITH OX HORN TRUMPET mOTl'leS, if thc dead pCrSOU is of importance or a chief, his successor—his fon, or, in the absence of children, a brother— conducts the ceremonies. In the dead man's hut a large grave is dug, one end of which is prolonged into a tunnel under the floor of the hut. Into this tunnel the corpse, which has been wound up into a sitting position with many folds of bark-cloth and fresh skins, is laid on a bed of skins. The grave is then filled up, and a feast of beer and flesh takes place. The hut in which the personage of importance is buried—sometimes the whole village in which he dwelt—is abandoned after the burial ceremonies. The common people are buried in much the same way, but without, perhaps, such elaborate swathing in bark-cloth. Those who are denounced by the witch doctors as unauthorised sorcerers in their lifetime, if dead or after. Please note that the
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