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tolerated and openly claim ju-ju worship & cannibalism as tribal privileges.   (They only eat enemies & one old buck informed me "Boy not good like cow - Eat plenty Boy, Bushman make fraid" meaning that the eating is for moral effect.   Bon Idée.   While on the wharf yesterday I bought 2 ½ worth of good Ju-Ju.   Wild & wooly old Ju Ju man on naval wharf, said to have so great hold on Bushmen (30,000 here) that authorities frightened to fire him out.   Blessed me & gave me absolution from dangers for 2 ½d, also Ju Ju beads. Only cursed one chap while we were there - for skylarking round him. Told him he "See German - die Plenty soon!"

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