consultation and ceremony chooses out of his other
sons, secondly 'the son of his right hand,' and
thirdly, 'the son of his grandfather.' If the father
be a Chief, these two are after his death accounted as
Chiefs in the tribe, subordinate to the 'great son,'
and even if through their superior energy, the size of
the tribe requiring emigration to pastures new, or
other causes, one or both of them break off, and with
their respective inheritance or following form a
separate tribe or tribes, yet they are federally bound
to their great brother, and their successors to his
successors, and recognise him as their supreme or
national Chief. Thus Krili, the Chief of the
Amagcaleka tribe across the Kei, was also paramount
Chief of all the Amaxosas, including his own tribe,
and those this side the Kei, who are divided into the
two great divisions--each of which includes several
tribes--of the Amangquika and Amandhlambi, which
latter has among it the Amagqunukwebi, a tribe of
Caffre intermingled with Hottentot blood, and
therefore rather looked down upon."[225]

Dr. Nicholson, from whom I quote this evidence, goes on to say that
the

"custom then of the heirship of the youngest, appears
to me to have not unlikely grown up among a polygamous
race, and to have arisen both from considerations of
self security and from those of race and rank."

Quite independently of Dr. Nicholson I had come to the same
conclusion;[226] and Dr. Nicholson, after handsomely acknowledging my
priority in the "discovery," very properly alludes to the not
unimportant fact of two workers in the same field coming to like
conclusions. It is remarkable that the same distinction between the
succession of the youngest son and of the son of the youngest wife
appears in folk-tales.[227] Now clearly it would be quite wrong to
suggest a parallel between the heirship of the youngest among the
Kafir peoples of Africa and heirship of the youngest among the tribal
people of early Europe. They are not comparable at all points, and it
is just where the point of comparison fails that it becomes so
important to science.[228]

I will take one other example, and this is the important practice of
human sacrifice which looms so largely in anthropological research,
and which is considered by so good an authority as Schrader