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others, members of interior tribes, making forty in all. Several 

 of these had accompanied Livingstone on his second journey, and 

 were of the greatest service to him. 



LANDING THE ANIMALS. 



OWING to shallow water and extremely miry banks he found it 

 quite impossible to land his animals at the Rovuma, and had to 

 search for a safer spot, which he at length found at Mikindamy 

 Bay, which lies twenty-five miles north of Rovuma. The animals 

 were so badly bruised by being tossed about in the dhow, that a 

 rest was necessary before starting for the interior. Twenty 

 natives were engaged here to carry some of the burdens, and 

 saddles were made for the camels and donkeys. During this 

 delay a buffalo gored one of the donkeys so badly that it had to 

 be shot, which was a loss much to be deplored, as no other animal 

 is so well suited for carrying purposes in Africa. 



It was not until April 6th that the expedition started for the 

 interior along the Rovuma valley. 



BURNING A LEOPARD. 



ON the 23d they passed a spot where, on the previous night, a 

 leopard had been burned. Upon questioning the natives, Liv- 

 ingstone found that it was the custom to burn the bodies of 

 leopards that are killed, but to preserve the skins. The reason 

 which they gave for not eating the flesh, as nearly all other tribes 

 do, is that the leopard devours men ; this shows the opposite of 

 an inclination to cannibalism. 



Upon reaching the Makoa country, a queer people were met 

 with, quite unlike those of any tribe toward the south. The 

 men have their faces thickly tattooed in double raised lines of 

 about half an inch in length. After the incisions are made 

 charcoal is rubbed in and the flesh pressed out, so that all the 

 cuts are raised above the level of the surface. The women are 

 generally tall and well-made, with fine limbs and feet, and are 

 profusely tattooed all over ; even the hips and buttock are elab- 

 orately marked, no shame being felt at the exposure of those 

 parts. 



