Baluba

Group of tribes in Central Africa, near the Sankuru River and s. of the Dwarfs. They live in clean villages, with straight streets, shaded by palms; are experts in various arts and manufactures; good-natured and peaceable, and have mild laws. They wear skins, and tattoo the body extensively. In war and hunting the lance with iron point is used, also poi soned arrows. They use razors for shaving. In some tribes both men and women smoke, drawing the smoke through a bowl of water, and inhaling it to produce intoxication. Some are polygThe huts are oven-shaped, and fetich worship abounds. One tribe, Quioco, is noted for its hunters and its iron industries. Baluches. One of two races of Balu chi stan; Iranians, pro amous. fe ing Mohammedanism and practicing polygamy. They differ from the Brahoes (who are short and thick, with round and flat features and of Hindoo origin) in being tall, with elongated face and prominent features. They are pastoral and warlike, but lazy and di ipated when not engaged in predatory pursuits. Wives are procured by purchase; and a man is expected to marry his brother's widow. One of the tribes constitutes the robber hordes of s. w. Afghanistan. With the Brahoes, they number ab. 400,000, subdivided into many tribes.