Note 216 — NEGROLAND divided into Nations.

According to Ibn Fáṭimah, “when any one among these people dies, they cast the dead body to their neighbours, and their neighbours do the like for them.” So Sultan Bello related (Clapp. Sec. Exped. p. 251) that in Umburm, where those who ail are killed at once, for economy, “the person falling sick is requested by some other family, and repaid when they have a sick relation.”