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CONVIVIAL MOURNING. 



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ligent fellow, who offered to conduct me in two or three days' 

 journey to the principal place of Kasongo, the chief of all 

 Warua. For some private reasons Mona Kasanga dissuaded him 

 from fulfilling his promise, and assured 

 me he was not speaking the truth, for in 

 the direction pointed out by him the peo- 

 ple were very troublesome, and taking 

 that road would lead to more fighting. 



We therefore continued our journey 

 under Mona Kasanga's guidance, and ar- 

 rived the next day at a village, the head- 

 man of which — M']S"chkkulla — was a 

 friend of Mona Kasanga. Here we halt- 

 ed, and remained while these worthies 

 and their friends got drunk in honor of 

 some mutual acquaintance who had de- 

 parted this life about three months pre- 

 viously. 



The head-man visited me in a very 

 maudlin state, and insisted on shaking 

 hands with me times without number. 

 From him I ascertained that the camp 

 we were occupying had been built by 

 the plundering party we had heard of near Kamwawi, and that 

 Kasongo's capital Avas only three or four days distant. 



When their convivial manner of mourning for their dead 

 friend was completed, and Mona Kasanga was ready to march, 

 he again refused to take the direct road, but led us in an east- 

 south-east direction, and we camped by a village situated on the 

 banks of the Luvijo, a large stream running to the Lualaba. 



Kear tlie source of this river is found a large quantity of cin- 

 nabar, used by the natives for painting themselves. Tlieir faces 

 they color in the most ludicrous manner. A red dot on the tip 

 of the nose is a favorite embellishment ; and some, who also use 

 a kind of pipe-clay as white paint, give their faces a very close 

 resemblance to that of a circus - clown. Their ornaments are 

 principally beads, worn in great numbers round the arms and 

 legs, and in two ropes of several strands, disposed across the 

 breast and back like cross-belts, and also a few copper and iron 



A NATrVE OF MPANGA 8ANGA. 



October, 

 1874. 



