These marriage rules (_chikulundine_) prohibit the wife from adultery, and bind both parties to resort to the medicine man (_mchisango_) in case of sickness or misfortune. In Deut. xxiv. 5, it is said, ‘When a man hath taken a new wife he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be chargeable with any business, but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife whom he has taken’. So certain Africans will not go on any warlike expedition or act as undertakers (34) when they have a young child. 59.—SEPARATION. The husband and wife may separate if they can show some reason. The reasons for a separation are such as these: (1) If the wife commit _adultery_, for one offence she may get off with a reprimand, especially in the case of a poor man; but the repetition of the offence generally insures dismissal, if not death. If she be free, she goes back to her surety, if she be a slave, she will likely be sold. (2) If either speak disrespectfully of the other’s friends there may be a separation. (3) If a woman’s children all die her husband may leave her. (4) Where the husband neglects to sew his wife’s clothes, or where the wife will not hoe diligently, there may be a divorce. (5) In cases where they do not please each other, a separation may be arranged. When they separate, the wife takes away the few domestic utensils which she brought with her, none of which are used by the man. If he gave her, occasionally, pieces of cloth to wear she does not pay them back, because she was the “cook of his porridge for him”. In all separations, except for serious cases like adultery, the one party gives the other a token (_msimbo_), which may be cloth, arrow-heads, beads, or some such current money. The one that begins the strife (_juakutanda_), and is the cause of the separation, pays the other. Very often a husband leaving his wife will give her a male slave, while a wife leaving her husband will give him a female slave. _Marriage with Slaves._ If one of the parties be a slave to the other, the marriage bond is not so readily dissolved. Slave spouses must listen to the dictates of their partners, and where there is practically only one will there can be no collision. The free spouses when tired of their slave partners, or offended by them, can dispose of them just as in the case of other slaves. We have known many cases of slave wives running away from husbands, but we have not known instances of slave husbands running away from free wives. We might think that where the wives have the upper hand in marriage relationships, there is not such a risk of strife as in the ordinary arrangement; only the proportion of free wives with slave husbands is small.