The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-01
LAKE NAvAIsIIA.

TWO cows. two 'bullocks, two sheep and
some goat skins This money goes to
mas selected who may lower the price
Il he will. Divorces may be had for
!aziness and bad temper on the part
OF the wife: and in such cases part
Of the marriage fee is sometimes re-
turned Widows cannot marry again.
II her husband dies the woman goes
pack to her mother. or to her brother,
IL per mother be dead.
The Old Women DO the Work.
AS far as can learn these Nasal
girls have soft snap. They are re-
CURED to do nothing until they are
married. Before that they play with
IN, the warriors. spending their time IN
.dancing and singing and loafing about.
The unmarried girl often does not do /,
her own cooking. This. condition con-
.in nm, for long time after marriage
and up until all the babies OF the
family are fairly well grown. AS soon
as that liz accomplished. however, the
lliard-working period begins. Almost
an OF the hard labor of the tribes is 4
done by the older women. They coll
lect the fire wood. They build the
mud houses and gather the COW ma
nure with which their walls are
smeared When the villages are moved
dunes take the parts of the donkeys
ana and bullocks in carrying the burdens.
,Ihey erect the new huts and they are.
as rule mere hewers of wood and
F
Nation of Stock Hai.crs,
| These Nasal do no farming. They
are a nation OF stock raisers and own
nerds OF cattle. sheep and goats. which
they drive about from pasture to pas
cure. me cattle are of tho bumped
variety like the sacred cows OF India.
many of them being fat. sleek and
iine looking. Some of the animals
are are, branded. and not a few have rude
peils OF iron in order that they may
ne traced If they stray. The most OF
the cattle are watched by half-naked
/ poys. VINO drive them about with sticks
and evening the cows are brought
INTO the villages to be MIXED. and
h ne ao,. every town m Of mud huts has
~. .,,s,,. COW house lot, The women do the.
4 tom in some parts of Africa, where
4 1T is thought the cows will go dry IL
ia an a female touches them. Tho milk
ward cleaned with handouts of burnt
grass. The calves are brought along
a1ne IN, their I'm mothers at milking time.
i milk without they are present. If a
calf dies It is skinned and stuffed with
straw. and then placed under the cows
drink fhf 'f ther ' nIH he bpnop1e always
90 OF cleaning the gourds gives Ii q
i smoky flavor.
They. Drink Blood.
4 The Nasal are blood-drinkers. Their
country has practically no salt. and I
blood drinking f'hey CONSUME s, e' all tie he
blood of the animals they Kill and
sometimes bleed their cattle in the
f tSat a fbev then rrn, tie Up the wounds 50
times strap is tied around an ami
n i,a throat and an arrow is shot
into the iugnlar vein, As the blood
CUISINES forth 1t is caught in gourds and
, drunk warm.
j The people eat but few vegetables
an and d, they do no farming whatever.
twenty inches In height The larger
pots b are s; rot placed oyer the FIRE but
around now and then, in order that
they may be evenly heated.
a Talk With Sidney l.. Hindc.
4 The most of my information about
these. Nasal comes from Captain Sid
n n1yro LangfGrd hin nnta the famous sM
Isubcommissioner OF this colony, and
mot him at Mombasa on my way here.
Captain Hinde was born In Canada not
far from Niagara Falls. He received
an excellent medical education in Ger
many and England. but began his life
as a captain in tho Belgian colonial
service. During his stay there he en-
plorcd the upper Lualaba and other
Fall Of tho Congo Arabs" About ton
years or SO ago he camo 80, over into
I3rltlSll lIaSt tAIrlCHt ana ftOOK part III
the sllb1ugation of this country for
the English. He lived with the Nasal
them. When / met him he was act
ing as Governor Of British East Africa
in the absence Iof tho chief, and his
home was one of the official rosl-
dances. beautiful cottage outside
N1omhasa on the rocks overlooking the
Indian Ocean. Tho house is decorated
with the trophies secured by Mr.. IIindt
and his wife during their stay In
Africa. Upon the floors are the skins
Of lions and leopards, on the walls are
the, heads OF. gifaffes. ANTELOPE, gnu
! and of other big game and there are
I native spears and weapons of every
kind standing about. large number
/ by Mrs. Hlnde. She has herself kill
/ cd several lions, no end or antelopes
and zebras, and one huge rhlnoceros.
In my talk with MI. l!inde, no tolG
me much about the Nasal saving tina
ing semi civllizcd. They are paYint
/ the annual hut taxes OF about three
II rupees each, to tho government. Thre,
rupees means 81 American. II seems
Il but little until one remembers that |
i takes native aboutsa month to ,. aarl
that much, when 1t becomes grea
II deal.