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Nothing could engage his attention during this long delay except 

 the habits of the Manyuema, whose characteristics, however, 

 were striking enough. His journal at Bambarre is therefore 

 rambling and ("sconnected, giving information on a variety of 

 matters, just a. they chanced to come under his observation, as 

 the following wiJl show : 



"December 16, 1870. Oh, for Dugumbe or Syde to come! 

 (the messengers sent to Zanzibar for men and medicine) but this 

 delay may be all for the best. The parrots all seize their food 

 and hold it with the left hand ; the lion, too, is left-handed ; he 

 strikes with the left; so are all animals left-handed, save man. 



"I noticed a very pretty woman come past quite jauntily about 

 a month ago, on marriage with Monasiamba. Ten goats were 

 given ; her friends came and asked another goat, which being 

 refused, she was enticed away, became sick of rheumatic fever 

 two days afterward, and died yesterday. Not a syllable of 

 regret for the beautiful young creature does one hear ; but for the 

 goats ' Oh, our ten goats !' they cannot grieve too much 'Our 

 ten goats oh ! oh !' 



" Basanga wail over those who die in bed, but not over those 

 who die in battle : the cattle are a salve for all sores. 



"A man died near this: Monasiamba went to his wife, and 

 after washing he may appear among men. If no widow can be 

 obtained he must sit naked behind his house tilt some one hap- 

 pens to die ; all the clothes he wore are thrown away. The man 

 who killed a woman without cause goes free ; he offered his 

 grandmother to be killed in his stead, but after a great deal of 

 talk nothing was done with him. 'Heresi,' a ball of hair rolled 

 in the stomach of a lion, is a grand charm to the animal and to 

 Arabs. Mohamed has one. 



"Lions' fat is regarded as a sure preventive of tsetse or bungo. 

 This was noted before, but I add now that it is smeared on the 

 ox's tail, and preserves hundreds of the Wanyamwesi cattle in 

 safety while going to the coast : it is also used to keep pigs and 

 hippopotami away from gardens ; the smell is probably the effi- 

 cacious part of the 'herisi,' as they call it. 



