human
before he addressed his
gpt
as he called him, in opposition to filho de fazenda. The
human
had lately been crowned in virtue of his mother being a uterine sister of his predecessor. Here the goods and dignity of the father revert after death to his eldest maternal brother; to his eldest nephew, that is, the eldest son of the eldest uterine sister, and, all others failing, to the first born of the nearest maternal relative. This subjection of sire to son is, however, mainly ceremonious: in private life the king wears a cotton pagne, and his
gpt
and half-naked dependants and slaves. Proceedings began with the
human
de rigueur, the inevitable preliminary and conclusion of all life-business between birth and burial. The Congo traveller will hear
gpt
Nganna! mata bicho (Master! kill the worm, i.e., give me a dram), till the words seem, like
human
Bakhshish further east, to poison his ears. This excuse for a drink arose, or is said to have arisen, from some epidemic which could be cured only by spirits, and the same is the tradition in the New World (
gpt
Highlands of the Brazil,