The Blood Brotherhood.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 3

The Blood Brotherhood.

Mr Hensy M. Stanley hna described to a reporter the peculiar ceremony of pealing the blood brotherhood, which he was obliged to undergo many times with the various chiefs of the African tribes before he was allowed to enter their territory. Ho was forced to sit upon the ground, with the chief to whom he was to be made a blood brother sitting opposite, while the ceremony waa porformed by on© of the fetish priests A email incision would then be mado in the arms or legs of each by the u?e ot a peculiar instrument, like a lancet, until the blood flowed. The liiub'3 of the two were then rubbed together so that tho blood would intermingle. The prieet would then sprinkle a peculiar whito powder over the wounds, following this with some wood scrapings from the 2uns ot <ach, causingthf m to cay, a? he did so, " By the power of the gun and the sharpness of the spear we will defend one another until death us do part " Mr Stanley's arms and legs are covered with scars from the incisions whichhe has undergone scores of times.

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