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would pick the bones of the base recreants who had abandoned 

 them. This threat seemed to have much effect upon the men, 

 and when, three days later, Belaal and his four compatriots were 

 Killed by a band of savage natives, the superstitious people 

 believed that it was through some magic power exerted by Baker, 

 so that they hailed him as a powerful magician. This belief he 

 did not attempt to dispel, and it was fortunate that he did not, 

 for it served him well on future occasions. 



THE PEOPLE OF TARRANGOLLE. 



THIRTEEN miles from Latome lay the largest village in the 

 Latooka country, Tarrangolle, where Moy, the chief, resided. 

 This was Ibrahim's destination, the place where he collected his 

 ivory and slaves, and carried them back to Goridokoro, which, 

 by dead reckoning, was only 101 miles distant, but nearly o 

 month is required to make the journey. 



Crowds of natives came out of the village to receive Baker and 

 the Turks, but their curiosity was attracted almost exclusively to 

 the camels and the white woman, paying little heed to Baker 

 himself, because he was brown as an Arab. 



The Latookas are doubtless the finest made savages in all 

 Africa. A score or more of them who came into Baker's tent 

 were measured, and averaged five feet eleven and one-half inches. 

 Not only are they tall, but they possess a wonderful musculai 

 development, having beautifully proportioned legs and arms ; 

 and although extremely powerful, they are never fleshy or cor- 

 pulent. The formation of head and general physiognomy is 

 totally different from all other tribes in the neighborhood of the 

 White Nile. They have high foreheads, large eyes, rather high 

 cheek-bones, mouths not very large, well shaped, and the lips 

 rather full. They have a remarkably pleasing cast of counten- 

 ance, and are a great contrast to other tribes in civility of manner. 

 They are frank but warlike, excessively merry, ready either for 

 a laugh or fight. 



The town of Tarrangolle contains about threo thousand, 

 houses, which are not only surrounded by iron-wood palisades., 



