And I found his Orunda was only to eat over water when on a journey
by water." "At another place, a chief at whose village we once
anchored in a small steamer when a glass of rum was given him, had a
piece of cloth held up before his mouth that the people might not
see him drink, which was his Orunda."
I know some ethnologists will think this last case should be classed
under another head, but I think the Doctor is right. He is well
aware of the existence of the other class of prohibitions regarding
chiefs and I have seen plenty of chiefs myself up the Rembwe who
have no objection to take their drinks coram publico, and I have no
doubt this was only an individual Orunda of this particular Rembwe
chief.
Great care is requisite in these matters, because a man may do or
abstain from doing one and the same thing for divers reasons.
CHAPTER XIII. FETISH - (continued).
In which the Voyager discourses on deaths and witchcraft, and, with
no intentional slur on the medical profession, on medical methods
and burial customs, concluding with sundry observations on twins.
It is exceedingly interesting to compare the ideas of the Negroes
with those of the Bantu.
