418 THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



this Musungu ! A Mgogo is a Mgwana (a free man) ; he is not 

 used to be beaten, hahcht.' But whenever I made a motion, 

 flourishing my whip toward them, these mighty braggarts found 

 jt convenient to move to respectful distances from the irritated 



Musungu.' 



A HANDSOME PEOPLE. 



A MARCH of three days brought the expedition to the Wahumba 

 district, which is small, comprising only a few villages, and these 

 not numerously inhabited ; but the people are none the less 

 remarkable. They live in cone huts plastered with cow-dung, 

 and shaped like the Tartar tents of Turkestan. The men are 

 remarkably well formed and handsome, having clean limbs and 

 the most exquisite features. Athletes from their youth, they 

 intermarry and keep the race pure. The women are as handsome 

 as the men, and have a clear ebon skin of an inky hue. Their 

 ornaments consist of spiral rings of brass, pendant from the 

 ears, brass ring collars about their necks, and a spiral cincture of 

 brass around the loins, used as an ornament and also to keep the 

 goat-skins folded about their persons in place ; these skins depend 

 from the shoulder and shade one-half the bosom. 



A CURIOUS INCIDENT. 



THE village of Mukondoku, on the borders of Ugogo, is a large 

 place, containing perhaps 3,000 people. They flocked to see the 

 wonderful man whose face was white, who wore the most won- 

 derful things on his person, and possessed the most wonderful 

 weapons; guns which "bum-bummed" as fast as you could 

 count on your fingers. They farmed such a mob of howling 

 savages that Stanley for an instant thought there was something 

 besides mere curiosity which caused such commotion and attracted 

 such numbers to the roadside. Halting, he asked what was the 

 matter, and what they wanted, and why they made such a noise? 

 One burly rascal, taking his words for a declaration of hostilities, 

 promptly drew his bow, but in an instant Stanley's faithful Win- 

 chester, with thirteen shots in the magazine, was ready and at the 

 shoulder, but he waited to see the arrow fly before pouring the 



