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surrounded by a large body of Ellyrians, and among the first was 

 their chief, Legge, who was intent on securing blackmail. His 

 first demand was for fifteen heavy copper bracelets and ten 

 pounds of assorted beads. A bottle of spirits had accidentally 

 been broken in one of the packs, and smelling the liquor he 

 immediately clamored for a "belly-fully," as he expressed it. 

 A pint bottle of the strongest spirits was given him, which he 

 emptied without once removing it from his mouth. Baker says : 



"Although I had presented Legge with what he desired, he 

 would give nothing in return, neither would he sell either goats 

 or fowls ; in fact, no provision was procurable except honey. I 

 purchased about eight pounds of this luxury for a hoe. My men 

 were starving, and I was obliged to serve them out rice from my 

 sacred stock, as I had nothing else to give them. This they 

 boiled and mixed with honey, and they were shortly sitting round 

 an immense circular bowl of this rarity, enjoying themselves 

 thoroughly, but nevertheless grumbling as usual. In the coolest 

 manner possible the great and greedy chief, Legge, who had 

 refused to give or even to sell anything to keep us from starving, 

 no sooner saw the men at their novel repast than he sat down 

 among them and almost choked himself by cramming handfuls 

 of the hot rice and honey into his mouth, which yawned like an 

 old hippopotamus. The men did not at all approve of this 

 assistance, but as it is the height of bad manners in Arab etiquette 

 to repel a self-invited guest from the general meal, he was not 

 interfered with, and was thus enabled to swallow the share of 

 about three persons." 



Legge, although the worst of his tribe, had a similar formation 

 of head. The Buri and those of Tolloga and Ellyria have gener- 

 ally bullet-shaped heads, low foreheads, skulls heavy behind the 

 ears and above the nape of the neck : altogether their appearance 

 is excessively brutal, and they are armed with bows six feet long, 

 and arrows horribly barbed and poisoned. 



THROUGH A GAME COUNTRY. 



THE Ellyrians would sell nothing but honey, while their inces- 

 sant begging was very annoying, so that the halt among them 



