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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t down the trees and brush to makea clearing, burn everything that is cut down, and then dig holesand stick in their roots and shrubs. Their staple food is themanioc, the leaves of which they also boil and eat as greens.Besides manioc they cultivate plantains, yams, sugar-cane of anexcellent quality, and squashes, the seeds of which they pre-pare in a peculiar way. The Fan have one custom which perhaps accounts for theirsuperiority to the surrounding tribes. They never marry theirgirls before they have arrived at the age of puberty; and theyhave a care for the chastity of their young women. The Fanmarriage ceremonies are very rude, but are a time of great jollity. Of course the husband has to buy his wife, and theshrewd father makes a bargain with him as well as he can, put-ting on a great price if the mans love is very ardent; some-times the price is so high that it takes years before a man canbujr and marry the lady of his love. When a wedding is in prospect the friends of the happy
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DU CHAILLWS EXPLORATIONS. 201 couple spend many days in obtaining and laying in great storesof provisions—chiefly smoked elephant-meat and palm-wine.They engage hunters to keep up the supply, and accumulateenough to feed the great numbers who are expected to come.When all is ready the whole town assembles, and, without anyceremony, but merely as a public sale, as it were, the fatherhands his daughter to her husband, who has generally alreadypaid her price. The happy pair are, of course, dressedfinely for the occasion. The bridegroom is attired in a featherhead-dress of glowing colors; his body is oiled; his teeth areblack and polished like ebony; his huge knife hangs at his side ;and if he can kill a leopard or panther, or other rare animal, itsskin is wrapped about his middle in a graceful way. The brideis very simply dressed, or rather -she is (like all the Fanwomen) not dressed at all; but for this occasion she is orna-mented with as many bracelets as she can get, of brass or cop

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