These Rocks Have Long Served For Burial
Places, And In Consequence Are Held Too Sacred To Be Approached.
One Of The Young Men, However, Cried Out, "Let
Us All Be Brave," And Ran On Ahead; But When Within A Hundred
Yards, The Whole Party Thought Better Of It, And Stopped
Short.
With perfect indifference, however, they allowed us
to examine the whole place.
At this village we rested some
hours, during which time there was a long discussion with
Mr. Bushby, concerning the right of sale of certain lands.
One old man, who appeared a perfect genealogist, illustrated
the successive possessors by bits of stick driven into the
ground. Before leaving the houses a little basketful of
roasted sweet potatoes was given to each of our party; and
we all, according to the custom, carried them away to eat
on the road. I noticed that among the women employed in
cooking, there was a man-slave: it must be a humiliating
thing for a man in this warlike country to be employed in
doing that which is considered as the lowest woman's work.
Slaves are not allowed to go to war; but this perhaps can
hardly be considered as a hardship. I heard of one poor
wretch who, during hostilities, ran away to the opposite
party; being met by two men, he was immediately seized;
but as they could not agree to whom he should belong, each
stood over him with a stone hatchet, and seemed determined
that the other at least should not take him away alive.
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