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ACROSS AFRICA. 



[Chap, 



May, 

 1874. 



striking, the fashion is dirtj. Some twist their hair into the 

 form of four ram's iiorns, the one in front being turned back- 

 ward. 



This was the first place where I had seen any likeness to 

 idols. And liere several men wore round their necks a little 

 figure with a carved head — the body being a sort of cone w^ith 

 rings and two or three feet — and a hole through the neck for 

 the string by which it was hung. 



HEADS OF WAGUHHA AND OTUEB LAKE TBIBEB. 



On the 3d of May there was a slashing breeze freshening uj) 

 from the eastward, and I made sail with many a hope that I 

 might in a few hours find myself in the outflowing Lukuga. 

 Shortly before noon I arrived at its entrance, more than a mile 

 across, but closed by a grass-grown sand-bank, with the excep- 

 tion of a channel three or four hundred yards wide. Across 

 this there is a sill where the surf breaks heavily at times, al- 

 though there is more than a fathom of water at its most shal- 

 low part. 



The chief visited me, and informed me that the river was 

 well known to his people, who often traveled for more than a 

 month along its banks, until it fell into a larger river, the Lua- 



