Loyalty to one’s family, one’s encampment, and one’s tribe is everything. Most feuds are settled before they get to this stage. Everyone can recall incidents in their tribes, often serious ones involving knives and even killings, that have been swiftly resolved through payment of compensation. Everyone knows that it is much better to negotiate and avert a cycle of vengeance, angry though the young men may be, and must be seen to be. Stolen property must, of course, be returned, and blood money or wound price paid as compensation for the loss of life or injuries.
