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man-cleaver double-edged and pointed, heading a strong staff- 

 is in his right hand ; jingling hells are tied around his ankles and 

 knees ; ivory wristlets are on his arms, with which he sounds his 

 approach. With the plodding peasant's hoe he has dropped the 

 peasant's garb, and is now the proud, vain, exultant warrior 

 bounding aloft like a gymnast, eagerly sniffing the battle-field. 



The tembe (dwelling-house) is divided into apartments, sepa- 

 rated from each other by a wattled wall. Each apartment may 

 contain a family of grown-up boys and girls, who form their 

 beds on the floor out of dressed hides. The father of the family, 

 only, has a kitanda, or fixed cot, made of ox-hide stretched over 

 a frame, or of the bark of the myombo tree. The floor is of 

 tamped mud, and is exceedingly filthy, smelling strangely of every 

 abomination. In the corners, suspended to the rafters, are the 

 fine airy dwellings of black spiders of very large size, and other 

 monstrous insects. 



The Wagogo believe in the existence of a god, or sky spirit, 

 whom they call Mulungu. Their prayers are generally directed 

 to him when their parents die. A Mgogo, after he has consigned 

 his father to the grave, collects his father's chattels together, his 

 cloth, his ivory, his knife, his jembe (hoe), his bows and arrows, 

 his spears, and his cattle, and kneels before them, repeating a 

 wish that Mulungu would increase his wordly wealth, that he 

 would bless his labors, and make him successful in trade. 



The following conversation occurred between Stanley and a 

 Mgogo trader : 



" Who do you suppose made your parents?" 



" Why, Mulungu, white man ! " 



"Well, who made you?" 



"If God made my father, God made me, didn't he?" 



"That's very good. Where do you suppose your father is 

 gone to, now that he is dead?" 



"The dead die," said he, solemnly: "they are no more. The 

 sultan dies, he becomes nothing he is then no better than a dead 

 dogr, he is finished, his words are finished there are no words 



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from him. It is true," he added, seeing a smile on Stanley's 



