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on the other side of the mountains, being precisely similar to 

 those described by Dr. Schweinfurth in the Dinka country, and 

 this breed also extends all through Manyuema and Urua. The 

 sheep when well fed put on fat, and the caponized goats are 

 particularly large and good. The she -goats are wonderfully 

 prolific, constantly producing three at a birth. I have heard of 

 instances in which five and six have been born at one time, and 

 have w^itnessed several cases of four at a birth. 



We soon came to a larger village, where we camped ; and 

 the people came in from the surrounding country to gaze at a 



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 1874. 



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white man, although they had seen Livingstone, who staid for 

 some months with a neighboring chief, Moene Kussu. He had 

 died, and had been succeeded by his sons, Moene Bugga and 

 Moene Gohe. The latter visited us, and offered, on the part of 

 himself and brother, all hospitality to a countryman of Living- 

 stone, whose peaceful and unoffending progress through this land 

 had tended to make an Englishman respected by the natives. 



We were delayed here by the illness of Muinyi Bokhari, one 

 of the small traders of the caravan, who, thinking himself too 

 poor to afford proper food, had actually been endeavoring to 

 subsist on grass and earth. Consequently, and veiy naturally, 

 something had gone wrong in his interior. 



