They recognize a sort of equality and partial communism ever afterward, and address each other by the title of molekane or comrade.

In cases of offence against their rules, as eating alone when any of their comrades are within call, or in cases of cowardice or dereliction of duty, they may strike one another, or any member of a younger mopato, but never any one of an older band; and when three or four companies have been made, the oldest no longer takes the field in time of war, but remains as a guard over the women and children.

When a fugitive comes to a tribe, he is directed to the mopato analogous to that to which in his own tribe he belongs, and does duty as a member.

No one of the natives knows how old he is.

If asked his age, he answers by putting another question, "Does a man remember when he was born ?" Age is reckoned by the number of mepato they have seen pass through the formulae of admission.