70 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



by Speke and Grant in collecting specimens, stuffing birds and 

 animals, and making sketches. While thus employed, they came 

 upon a poor slave, owned by a chief named Sirboko, who was 

 chained up in a most merciless manner. The pitiful-appearing 

 fellow cried out to Speke : 



"Hai Bana wangi, Bana wangi (Oh, my lord, my lord), take 

 pity on me ! When I was a free man I saw you at Uvira, on the 

 Tanganyika Lake, when you were there ; but since then the 

 Watuta, in a fight at Ujiji, speared me all over and left me for 

 dead, when I was seized by the people, sold to the Arabs, and 

 have been in chains ever since. Oh, I say, Bana wangi, if you 

 would only liberate me I would never run away, but would serve 

 you faithfully all my life." This touching appeal was too strong 

 to be withstood} so Speke called up Sirboko, and told him if he 

 would liberate this one man he should be no loser; and the 

 release was effected. He was then christened Farhan (Joy), 

 and was enrolled with the rest of the freedmen. Inquiry was 

 then made if it were true the Wabembe were cannibals, and also 

 circumcised. In one of the slaves the latter statement was easily 

 confirmed. Speke was assured that the slave was a cannibal ; 

 for the whole tribe of Wabembe, when they cannot get human 

 flesh otherwise, give a goat to their neighbors for a sick or dying 

 child, regarding such flesh as the best of all. No other cannibals, 

 however, were known of ; but the Massai and their cognates, the 

 Wahumba, Wataturu, Wakasange, Wanyaramba, and even the 

 Wagogo and Wakimbu, circumcise. 



THE KING OF KARAGUE AND HIS FAT WIFE. 



SUCH slow progress had been made, owing to war, desertions^ 

 oppositions from chiefs, etc., that it was not until the latter part 

 of October more than one year after starting that Capt. Speke 

 reached the Karague country. Here he found a fine stretch of 

 elevated lands which are drained by the Kitangule River directly 

 into the Victoria lake. It was here, also, that he met Rumanika, 

 the king, and Nnunji, his brother, a famous doctor. Both 

 these men had most regular features, denoting the best blood of 

 Abyssinia. Speke paid a visit to the king, and was received in 



