Everyday Life Among the Head-Hunters: And Other Experiences From East to West
Everyday Life Among the Head-Hunters: And Other Experiences From East to West
Dorothy Cator
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In Africa we used to be waked up by boys spell- ing out and chanting verses of the Koran by the glow of a stick fire, round which they were all huddled, but they understand little or nothing of what they are doing, which suits them admirably. Mahometanism, though, as an abstract faith, has a wonderfully strong hold on them, and they save up year after year to be able to journey to Mecca before they die. Their religion allows then> four wives, but very few avail themselves of this price- less pr...ivilege. They most of them find one quite as much as they can manage I Every morning, when we came to a convenient place to land, we used to get out and have our food and stretch our legs while the men cooked their rice. The people were very nice to us, bringing us fruit and welcoming us sometimes with the most perfect courtesy, but generally they Digitized by LjOOQ IC IN THE HEAD^HUNTING COUNTRY 59 found me such a wonderful sight they could do little but stare. Every man, woman, and child would stand and gaze as if their minds were in- capable of taking in such a phenomenon.
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