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CHAPTER XYIII. 



Pakhiindl. — Foundries. — Dust and Ashes. — Slave-gagging. — Freedmen the Harshest 

 Masters. — Salutations. — Disobliging People. — Hair, Dress, Tattooing. — Naked 

 People. — Natural Stomachers. — Building Operations. — No Ventilation. — Uvinza. 

 — Clay Idols. — Carving. — Anns. — The Arab's Kirangosi. — His Impertinence. — 

 Climbing Oil-palms. — My Showman. — The Bambarre Mountains. — Magnificeut 

 Trees. — A Dark Ravine. — Manyuema. — Dress and Arms. — The Women. — Econo- 

 my in Clothing. — Livingstone's Influence. — An Enlightened Chief. — Dwarfs. — 

 Musical Instruments. — Fearful Cannibals. — Dancing. — No Shooting allowed. 



Ok joining tlie caravan, we were welcomed with all outward June, 

 civility, but little else. The traders were naturally glad that a ^s'^^- 

 well-armed party should accompany them across Manyuema, as 

 they had barely sixty guns among them, many of those being 

 useless Tower and other flint-guns, while the best were merely 

 French trade percussion single-barrels. 



Of course we could not expect to start from Pakhundi with- 

 out wasting a day for the men of the two caravans to enjoy 

 their gossip ; but on the 22d of June we marched, and, pass- 

 ing through a hilly and diversified country, watered by a few 

 streams — some working to the Rubumba, now about twenty 

 miles north of us, and others flowing away to the Lukuga — ar- 

 rived at Kwasere. 



Here a prosperous village once stood, but it had evidently 

 been destroyed in some recent fight, together with others lying 

 near. Stools, pots, mortars, and other articles of household fur- 

 niture were lying about in confusion, instead of being removed, 

 as would have been the case had the flittuig been premeditated, 

 and growing crops were left standing. 



I firmly believe the traders had something to do with this 

 work of destruction, for they now took the precaution of build- 

 ing a very strong fence round their camp, although they had 

 not previously done so since leaving the Tanganyika ; but, in 

 answer to my inquiries, they asserted that no disturbance what- 

 ever had occurred here. 



