No inspection of the body being ever allowed by these people, and the place of sepulture being carefully concealed, I had to rest satisfied with conjecture.

Frequently the Bakwains buried their dead in the huts where they died, for fear lest the witches (Baloi) should disinter their friends, and use some part of the body in their fiendish arts.

Scarcely is the breath out of the body when the unfortunate patient is hurried away to be buried.

An ant-eater's hole is often selected, in order to save the trouble of digging a grave.

On two occasions while I was there this hasty burial was followed by the return home of the men, who had been buried alive, to their affrighted relatives.