24 TKAVEL, ADVENTUBE, AND SPORT. 



destructive, wasteful, .and injurious habit of inter- 

 meddling. This raised the creature's choler, and he 

 vowed vengeance to the death, seconding his words 

 with such a fiendish, murderous look, his eyes glisten- 

 ing like an infuriated tiger's, that I felt obliged to 

 damp his temerity and freedom of tongue by further 

 chastisement, which luckily brought him to a proper 

 sense of his duty. 



"We left at 7 A.M., and travelled ten miles to Ukuni 

 on the 18th. The country still continues of the same 

 rich and picturesque character, and retains daily the 

 same unvarying temperature. On the road we met a 

 party of "Wayombos, who, taking advantage of the 

 "Wamandas disturbances, had lifted some forty or fifty- 

 head of their cattle in perfect security. I saw two 

 albinos in this village, one an old Avoman with grey- 

 ish eyes, and the other young, who ran away from 

 fright, and concealed herself in a hut, and would not 

 show again although beads were offered as an induce- 

 ment for one moment's peep. The old lady's skin 

 was of an unwholesome fleshy-pink hue, and her hair, 

 eyebrows, and ej 7 elashes were a light yellowish white. 

 This march was shortened by two pagazis falling sick. 

 I surmised this illness to be in consequence of their 

 having gorged too much beef, to which they replied 

 that everybody is sure to suffer pains in the stomach 

 after eating meat, if the slayer of the animal happens 

 to protrude his tongue and clench it with his teeth 

 during the process of slaughtering. At last the white 



