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The men are usually handsome, and many of the women are very 

 pretty ; hands, feet, limbs, and forms perfect in shape, and the 

 color light-brown, but the orifices of the nose are widened by 

 snuff-takers, who ram it up as far as they can with the fiuger and 

 thumb : the teeth are not filed, except a small space between the 

 two upper front teeth. The men here deny that cannibalism is 

 common : they eat only those killed in war, and, it seems, in re- 

 venge ; for, said Mokandira, * the meat is not nice ; it makes one 



MANYUEMA WARRIORS. 



dream of the dead man.' Some west of Lualaba eat even those 

 bought for the purpose of a feast ; but I am not quite positive on 

 this point : all agree in saying that human flesh is saltish, and 

 needs but little condiment. And yet they are a fine-looking race. 

 I would back a company of Manyuema men to be far superior in 

 shape of head, and generally in physical form too, against the 

 whole Anthropological Society. Many of the women are very 

 light-colored, and very pretty ; they dresa in a kilt of many folds 

 of gaudy lambas," 



