Show hide signs of wealth in every bantu language there Is a word woid to describe the action of a mancho man who owning a considerable herd of cattle plants them out among his poorer relatives and neighbors so that he win will not appie appear 1 ar too prosperous Every everybody bod y knows that they are tits and just how many he has but hempst he must avoid any appearance of ostentation similarly it is not considered advisable to own too good a house or lands that are too well cultivated fear of exciting the envy of the chief is one of the motives motia es that govern this attitude of mind which always has been a powerful brake to the progress of bantu agriculture agrical ture in south africa |