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that the Lualaba did not lay where he expected to find it, but he 

 had gone far to the north, directly away from the object of his 

 search. His feet were dreadfully lacerated, and instead of heal- 

 ing, as heretofore, the sores became irritable eating ulcers, so 

 painful that it was only by the utmost determination that he 

 could limp back to Bambarre. 



THE MANYUEMA CANNIBALS. 



LIVINGSTONE had heard much concerning the cannibal propen- 

 sities of the Manyuerna people, but principally from the tribes 

 around Lake Nyassa, so that he was disposed to believe the reports 

 were little else than traditions, similar to those which asserted 

 that white men live in the sea, that there is a tribe in North 

 Africa whose people have tails like cows, and another race that 

 have four eyes, two in front and two behind, while another race 

 have but a single eye. Actual contact of several months with the 

 Mauyuema, however, convinced him that the reports he had 

 received of them were in no wise exaggerated. He says: "On 

 August 17th, Monayembe, the chief, came, bringing two goats ; 

 one he gave to Mohamed, the other to Moenekuss' son, acknowl- 

 edging that he had killed his elder brother ; he had killed eleven 

 persons over at Linamo in our absence, in addition to those killed 

 in villages on our southeast, when we were away. It transpired 

 that Kandahara, brother of old Moenekuss, whose village is near 

 this, killed three women and a child, and that a trading man 

 came over from Kassangangaye and was murdered too, for no 

 reason but to eat his body. When they tell of each other's deeds 

 they disclose a horrid state of blood-thirsty callousness. The 

 people over a hill north-northeast of this killed a person out 

 hoeing ; if a man is alone in a field, he is almost sure of being 

 slain. Some said that people in the vicinity j or hyenas, stole the 

 buried dead ; but Posho's wife died and, in Wanyainwesi fashion, 

 was thrown out of camp unburied. Mohamed threatened an 

 attack if Manyuema did not cease exhuming the dead. It was 

 effectual ; neither men nor hyenas touched her, though exposed 

 now for seven days. 



"The head of Moenekuss is said to be preserved in a pot in 



