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CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



At Kincaya, in the valley of Bemba Macongo, we met 

 Avith an Embomma slave merchant aoino; into the interior 

 for slaves. No information was to be got from him re- 

 specting the river, pretending that he had never been up it. 

 It is evident these merchants do not wish Europeans to 

 penetrate into the country, lest they should interfere Avith 

 their business. Here the cicatrices or ornamental marks 

 on the bodies of both men and women were mvich more 

 raised than in the lower parts of the River. The women 

 in particular had their chests and belly below the navel 

 embossed in a manner that must have cost them infinite 

 pain, the Avay of effecting it being to seize the skin between 

 the fore finger and thumb, and scarify it longitudinally with 

 a sharp knife ; and when this is done so deep as to draw 



