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Show East African Religious Ceremony. Recently a strango ceremony was performed nt Changamwo, East Africa, Afri-ca, to bring ruin. A house-to-house visit was made among tho natives by a self-appointed commjtteo who collected col-lected from each hut tho sum of two annas. With tho total thus collected an ox was purchased. A procession was then formed, In which all the avallablo children took part. After tho procession had proceeded around tho district for a period of two hours, the ox was sacrificed, prayers from the Koran being sang by the children. Tho moat of the ox was then boiled In pots by udult participators and given to the children to eat until the whole was consumed. The bones and remaining offal of tho carcaBS were later put in a sack, carefully carried to the sea and thrown into deep water. Circumstantially rain fell for a fow hours on tho succeeding day. |