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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
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gs. Among the Bechuanas, he found two distinct tribes ofslaves; the Makalahari and the Masarwas. The former aregenerally employed as domestic servants, but the Masarwas areperpetually engaged as hunters, a pursuit in which they aregreater adepts than their masters. Like the Bushmen, betweenwhom and the Bantu family they appear to be a link, they usebows and arrows, to which Bechuanas are little accustomed;they are very adroit also in the use of poisoned assegais, withwhich they will attack almost any animal. Indeed, a nakedMasarwa, armed only with a couple of these poisoned darts,will not hesitate to face a lion. 258 DR. HOLUB, THE AUSTRIAN EXPLORER. We have not space to note the reception which Holub metwith from Sechele and other chiefs whom Livingstone hadtaught Christianity and civilization. Stirring adventures andcurious customs fill the bulk of his two volumes, and we can-not pause for that which is of lesser interest. We stop hereto note a custom which obtains among the Bantu :
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Spoiled Magic. * Held as of the highest importance by the heathen Bechu-ana is the rite of circumcision; until it has been submitted to,no youth is supposed to have arrived at mans estate, and nowoman is considered of marriageable age. * * * * Call- DR. HOLUB, THE AUSTRIAN EXPLORER. 259 ed the hoguera, the observance is put into force upon boysafter they have reached their ninth year. The ceremony is

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