Again Sanders

For all that Sanders had heard was true: Makara had brought about a revolution in the custom of the country.

In this black hinterland, men have a defined place and the sphere of their activities is rigidly confined by immemorial custom.

For example, no woman is allowed to build a hut. The most lordly of the tribes reserve that work to men, partly, it is believed, because house-building has been the work of man since the beginning of time, and partly because, as is well known, a terrible curse lies on any roof that is thatched by a woman.

No matter how indolent men may be, the erection of a house is their sole prerogative.

On the other hand, no man with any spirit will till a field or grow corn or soak manioc or cook a meal.

There once was a tribe so degraded that the men cooked their own dinners, and the name of that tribe was a reproach from the Lado to Eschowe.

No woman may hunt or fish: that also is man's job, and the folk of Kobala'ba had terribly offended in this respect.