The bones that had been cast away when carcasses lay putrefying wastefully on the veld were collected and gnawed. Women and children wandered across the landscape digging for roots. This became the most common sight across the whole of the eastern districts, in the Transkei as well as British Kaffraria.
The hides of the slain beasts were boiled and eaten, even war shields and leather skirts of the women were cut up and cooked.
In marsh districts the bulbs of the prolific arum lillies (intebe) were dug up.
Cannibalism was also very common, with children being the common victims.
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