This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... and was an abomination to them, for the reason that, many generations ago, one of their women gave birth to a calf instead of a child. I laughed; but the king replied very soberly that he could show me a woman of another family whose grandmother had given birth to a crocodile, for which reason the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... and was an abomination to them, for the reason that, many generations ago, one of their women gave birth to a calf instead of a child. I laughed; but the king replied very soberly that he could show me a woman of another family whose grandmother had given birth to a crocodile, for which reason the crocodile was 'roondali to that family. Quengueza would never touch my salt beef, nor even the pork, fearing lest it had been in contact with the beef. Indeed they are all religiously scrupulous in this matter; and I found on inquiry afterwards that there was scarcely a man to whom some article of food is not' roondali.' Some dare not taste crocodile, some monkey, some boa, some wild pig, and all from this same belief. They will literally suffer the pangs of starvation rather than break through this prejudice, aud they very firmly believe that if one of the family should eat of such forbidden food, the women of that family would surely miscarry and give birth to monstrosities in the shape of the animal-which is 'roondali' or else die of an awful disease. Sometimes I find that the fetich man forbids an individual to touch certain kinds of food for some reason, or no reason rather. In this case, the prohibition extends only to the man, and not to his family." Then as to the law of succession, he says: "It is very singular that among all these people descent and inheritance are taken from the mother. The son of a Camma man by a woman of another tribe or nation is not counted a Camma; and, if we narrow it down to families, to be a true Abouya--a citizen of Goumbi--it is necessary to be born of an Abouya woman. If only the father were Abouya, the children would be considered half-breeds." Another author says: --" The snake is the tutelary god of...
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