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and some races in Central Africa, mainly the Anyanja 

 and Anguru, dig up bodies to use as food, which is a 

 loathsome and disgusting habit, and very much worse than 

 ordinary cannibalism, when the freshly killed victims are 

 eaten. When the Angoni raided an Achewa village, all 

 the full-grown men and women were speared ; but the 

 young boys and girls who could walk were spared and 

 taken back as slaves. The poor infants would have their 

 brains dashed out with knobkerries, then goats and other 

 livestock would be slaughtered and eaten, and often 

 the victors would leave a big pot simmering on a fire in a 

 hut, filled on the top with goat's flesh and underneath it a 

 small baby. 



The people who had escaped into the bush would watch 

 the raiders depart, then return tired and famished to their 

 huts, and seeing the pot of good meat, would often eat 

 most of it until they came to the bottom, where they saw 

 the slaughtered infant probably their own and this was 

 the so-called practical joke. I have spoken to natives who 

 have done this, and they were often quiet, good-mannered 

 men ; but when war was on they turned into bloodthirsty 

 savages. 



Many of the older men's names were given to com- 

 memorate past events, such as M'meza (or Memeza). He 

 happened to be born when the Angoni were collecting 

 for a big raid, and the word M'meza means sending 

 round. This man is one of the nicest and most gentle- 

 manly natives I ever met, there is nothing savage or 

 coarse in his features, and he has the reputation of being a 

 kind-hearted man who disliked shedding blood. At 

 present -he is the headman of the Angoni villages round 

 Fort Manning, although his nephew, named Zulu, is the 

 Boma (Government) capitao. 



Zulu's father (of the same name) was a son of old 

 Mpseni (pronounced Impseni), the paramount Angoni 

 chief, and Memeza is another son of the same old chief. 



An Angoni chief I know well, named Shauri, is also a 

 son of old Mpseni, and a brother to Zulu, Memeza, and 



