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finely-formed heads, and so have the women ; and the fashion of 

 wearing the hair sets off their foreheads to advantage. The 

 forehead is shaved off to the crown, the space narrowing as it 

 goes up. 



THE VILLAGE OF CASEMBE. 



DURING his stay at Hara, which was really enforced by pro- 

 tracted rains, Livingstone gained the friendship of Hamees, and 

 when he left the village on the 22d of September, he was accom- 

 panied by several Arabs, while Hamees followed a short distance, 

 and then supplied guides to take him to Lake Moero. The journey 

 thence was through a beautiful country, very thickly populated, 

 but the natives were so terror-stricken at the sight of guns, owing 

 to the recent Arab incursions and battles, that they would not 

 stop to barter, but ran off and hid themselves ; thus food was 

 somewhat difficult to obtain ; fortunately, however, a consider- 

 able amount was brought along. 



Reaching the Kalongi river the natives were more friendly dis- 

 posed, and as the river teemed with fish there was feast succeed- 

 ing a famine. Rapid progress was now made, and on November 

 1st the village of Casembe was entered, to the great delight of 

 the tired travelers. Casembe is a term applied to both village 

 and governor, or, literally, General. Just before Livingstone's 

 arrival there had been an interregnum in the rulership, the old 

 Casembe having recently died. As the son or heir does not suc- 

 ceed to the chieftainship, the village was without a ruler for 

 nearly a year before a new Casembe was selected to succeed the 

 dead chief. 



The plain extending from the Lunde river to Casembe is level, 

 and studded thickly with red-ant hills, from fifteen to twenty 

 feet high. The chief's residence is inclosed in a wall of reeds, 

 eight or nine feet high and three hundred yards square ; the 

 gateway is ornamented with about sixty human skulls ; a shed 

 stands in the middle of the road fronting the gate, under which 

 is a cannon ornamented with gaudy cloth. A number of noisy 

 fellows tried to stop Livingstone and his party and compel them 

 to pay a tribute for the cannon, but they burst through without 



