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The natives are exceedingly averse to touching a dead body; and when a stranger falls sick among them, and seems about to die, he is sometimes cast out, yet alive, and left in the open field, or in a jungle to die, or to be eaten by beasts of prey, ere life becomes extinct.

• Source: Grout, Lewis. Zululand: or, life among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal and Zulu-land, South Africa. With map, and illustrations, largely from original photographs. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Company, 1864.
• Culture: Zulu
• Location: Africa