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it would make matters worse, as he would then come back and do more damage in some other 

 form. It appeared that this magician was considered to have suffered for his ill-doing at 

 the hands of the good spirit. (Although the above answers do not always appear to be 

 replies to my questions they are given as spoken.) 



Everywhere throughout my sojourn on this river I found a famine of dura grain, the 

 harvest having been a complete failure. The natives were much emaciated, especially the Famine of 



T» • 1 1 • 1 1 ' 1 dura grain 



women. On remarking on the emaciation of his women to a Ban, he explained that the 

 men went out hunting and fishing, but it was not the custom to bring home anything to 

 the women, who were dependent on the grain ; besides, " A man's belly is easily filled, but 

 a woman's requires much." 



Bahr-El-Guazal 



At Shambe I took, amongst others, the blood of seventeen cattle doing transport between 

 tlus and llunbek, but neither then nor subsequently did I find any parasite in the peripheral 



Fig. 88.— N.\tive Br.\ssfounder with App.aratus 



blood in the transport cattle, but I was unfortunate in being unable to procure any with the 

 disease at all advanced. 



I saw here a native brassfounder making ingots fi)r future use out of cartridge cases and Native 



. 1 i\r TT- brassfounders 



other brass objects, and I eventually secured most of his apparatus for the Museum. His 

 method was as follows : He had a hole in the ground and a basin-like crucible in it surrounded 

 by charcoal. Also two bellows of earthenware, each worked by a small boy. These were of 

 the following nature : a basin-like apparatus with a wide tube taking origin from the bottom 

 of it at an angle, was covered with skin in the middle of which was a strip of hide which the 

 boy pulled up and down. This caused an intermittent draught down the pipe, which was 

 communicated to the bottom of the fire by another earthenware pipe or tuyere. The 

 interval between these two pipes acted as a valve, causing the intermittent current of air to 

 flow only towards the fire. I was surprised to find how easily he got enough heat to melt 

 the brass. 



The ingot was about 5 inches long and about 1 inch thick, and was made b\- pouring the 

 metal into a hole of the requisite shape in the ground. His pincers consisted of a piece of 

 strong strap iron, as used for boxes, turned over double. The operator's hammers were pieces 



