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the great river flowing to the northwest through that region, 

 and from which Livingstone had been driven back by the war 

 between the Arabs and natives previous to his meeting with 

 Stanley. The Manyuema nation is composed of a number of 

 tribes, varying greatly in disposition and general appearance. 

 Some are handsome and intelligent, others are filthy, ugly and 

 degraded ; but, with a few exceptions, all are mild and gentle in 

 disposition, although 

 universally addicted to 

 cannibalism. Stan- 

 ley's acquaintance with 

 them commenced at 

 the village of Lambo. 

 "In these people," 

 says he, "we first saw 

 the mild, amiable, un- 

 sop histicated inno- 

 cence of this part of 

 Central Africa, and 

 their behavior was ex- 

 actly the reverse of 

 the wild, ferocious, 

 cannibalistic races the 

 Arabs had 

 to us." 



In passing 



the country they came 

 to a village which 

 consisted of a number of low, conical grass huts, ranged 

 round a circular common, in the centre of which were three 

 or four fig-trees, kept for the double purpose of supplying 

 shade to the community and bark-cloth to the chief. The door- 

 ways to the huts were very low, scarcely thirty inches high. On 

 presenting himself inthe common, Stanley attracted out of doors 

 the owners and ordinary inhabitants of each hut, until he found 

 himself the centre of quite a promiscuous population of naked 



races 

 described 



through 



MILD TYPES OF MANYUEMA. 



