Barotse

/ bəˈrɒtsɪ /

noun

-se-ses a member of a Negroid people of central Africa living chiefly in SW Zambia
the language spoken by this people; Lozi

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They were working among the Baila, and also some Barotse who were living in that section of the country.

Then their Barotse conquerors came and killed all the iron workers and told them to come to the Barotse and purchase their iron.

He had been cured of this complaint, during the year before, by the Barotse making a large number of free incisions in the chest.

The people of the Barotse tribe have a very decided belief in the continued existence of the spirits of the departed.

Among the Barotse I found a disease called manassah, which closely resembles that of the 'foeda mulier' of history.

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