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~	1tWe traveled and lectured in both the north and the south and. our life, while we nad to work hard, was one of happiness and contentrxient. I traveled and lectured as the Princess .~uango ~ennadonah Perceriah, wife of the Abyssinian Prince0 I often recited the recitation written by the colored poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar When M&LL~aSi~s to the delight of our au1iences~

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	The following incidents of ~frican life were related to me by my husband QuangoHennadonah Perceriah and they were also given in his lectures on African customs while touring the United States.


	*tThe religion of the Bakuba tribe of A‘byssinia was almost wholly Pagan as the natives believed fully in witch~ craft, sorcery, myths and super~titions. The witch doctor held alsolute sway over the members of the tribe and when his reputation as a giver of rain, bountiful crops or success in the chase was at stake the tribès were called together and those accused by the witch doctor of being responsible for these conditions through witchery were conderned and speedily executed.

	‘tThe people were called together by the beating of drums. The witch doctor, dressed in the most hellish garb imaginable with his body painted and poisonous snake bone

	necklaces dangling from his neck and the claws of ferocious beasts, lions, leopards and the teeth of vicious man-seating crocodiles finishing up his adornment, sat in