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A Zulu Wedding 1
How Twins were Treated 7
“Sending Home,” I. 11
“Sending Home,” II. 13
Departed Spirits 18
Sacrificing to Spirits 20
The Death of a Chief 24
Inkata 27
The Zulu Annual Feast 30
The Doctoring of an Army 39
Finding out Wizards 44
A Fire Extinguisher 47
Rain Doctors 48
Rainbow, Lightning, and Eclipses 50
Praying for the Corn 53
Old Wives’ Tales 56
King Mpande’s Snake Charmer 62
How Death came into the World 66
The Zulu’s Choicest Bit of Meat 68
A Friendly Way of Obtaining Food 69
Peacemaking over a Pinch of Snuff 71
Rules of a Zulu Hunt 75
Bongoza’s Smartness 77
Zulu Labyrinths and War Game 81

NOTE.—The valuable footnotes signed “Ed.” are taken by permission from Miss Werner’s Paper in the “Journal of the African Society.”


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