. Ein Naturwissenschaftler in Transvaal. xen whilealive, aber wenn es um die Schlachtung ananimal entschieden, alle für das Tier verschwindet und Thesame einzelne kann so grausam sein, wie er ein Metzger wasformerly eine Art und aufmerksamen Hirten. Die meatwas schnell ausgezogen aus der Karkasse, zahlreiche smallfires wurden gemacht, und den Ochsen war bald Thepast. Es ist bei solchen Festen, dass Savage instinctsare wirklich gesehen, und wir erkennen, dass selbst restraintand sanfte Manieren, nachdem alle wahr sind Marken ofcivilization. Die Authentizität von vielen Reisenden Konten der religiösen Überzeugung und Herkunft

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. A naturalist in the Transvaal. xen whilealive, but when once it is decided to slaughter ananimal, all consideration for the beast vanishes and thesame individual can be as cruel a butcher as he wasformerly a kind and attentive shepherd. The meatwas quickly stripped from the carcass, numerous smallfires were made, and the ox was soon a thing of thepast. It is during such feasts that savage instinctsare really seen, and we recognize that self-restraintand gentle manners after all are the true marks ofcivilization. The authenticity of many travellers accounts ofthe religious beliefs and origins of customs amongso-called savage races have been long doubted, andon this journey I found the utmost difficulty inextracting any reliable or exact information from theMagwambas. I could only be told by one what wastoo often contradicted by another, and this, not becauseof their untruthfulness, but simply owing to our mutualignorance of each others meaning. Nor was it due toa want of knowledge of their language, as my host was a. ft-, MAGWAMBA ASSEGAIS AND SHIELD. ZOUTPANSBERG AND THE MAGWAMBAS. 107 thorough linguist, and, what was more, remained on themost friendly and trusted relations with them. Onemust live for some time with the Magwambas, and as aMagwamba, before any true insight can be obtained intotheir real speculative opinions, and then very few of themhave clear notions on these points. It would be the sameif a learned and anthropological Magwamba was pos-sible, who should visit England and in a short timeendeavour to study the origin and meaning of muchtheological and philosophical reasoning found in ourmidst. If he mixed only with our lower classes hewould find little opinion at all; our middle classeswould give him varied and often erroneous definitions;whilst among those of leisure he would find Galileoswho cared for none of these things. So it is, in amore moderate degree, among native races, where arealso found the totally ignorant, the thoroughly mis-taken, an

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