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10.Covenants may be made by two tribes to wipe out a common enemy, thus agreeing to settle any differences there may be between them without having recourse to mutual bloodshed. Such covenants however would not appear to be very binding, the respective number of fighting men among their allies or the common enemy often breaking up the proposed coalition at the very last moment.
(Religion)
11. The soul They have the idea of "something" being as-sociated [associated] with the breath (wou-oo) : that when a black dies, when he is unconscious, delirious etc, the breath, thinking power, will etc have left the body and are travelling about in space. Dreams (bê-júr) cannot be accounted for, though great importance is attached to them : they will relate to one another what they have dreamt, and either interpret them themselves or get others to do it for them. Apparitions of the individual are seen after his decease. The survivors are in fear of ghosts : the spirit of a dead person is called wêng-gool, or tó-pó (a name also applied to white-people in general) - Wenggool haunt their late homes and present burial places, and can be seen or heard - especially at night when the branches creak, or whenever any sound which can-not otherwise be accounted for is rendered audible. Any whistling sound in particular is connected with the spirits of people departed : ghosts in fact are supposed to communicate with mortal men by whistles which the old men are believed capable of interpreting. There is no practice of wives being put to death at the burial of a man. Dogs are reckoned to have thinking powers and bear relationships to their owners, who will often speak of them as ^their "mother", "son", "brother" etc in addition to calling them by name : these animals indeed after the are often named after the ^various tracts of country belonging to their owners, or else from the districts whence they have been ob-tained [obstained]. They No animals of any description are ever