t any hustling or disputing for right of place. The native never speaks at any meeting of the tribe without a stick in his hand, and on the p
resent occasion each speaker was provided with a number of sticks, having one for each subject of discussion, the sticks being thrown on the g
round by each alternately as he went through his speech. First one side and then the other stated the points of the agreement, which, of cours
e, had been 99 carefully discussed beforehand, so that there should be no chance of argument during the ceremony. The main points were that
there were to be no hostilities between the two clans in future, that they were to assist each other, and that neither should mol
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est any white man coming through its country. When all the sticks had been thrown down, they were collected, and being bound up in a bundle, were placed between the legs of the goat. The chief orator, whose stick was more like a club than the rest, then repeate
d the different conditions, at the end of each clause dealing the goat a heavy blow with his club whilst repeating a formula to the effect that any one breaking the agreement
sarmed, and, c