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they hold with both hands at once. Thus rubbing 

 and grinding away, their bodies sway monotonously 

 to and fro, while they cheer the time by singing and 

 droning in cadence to the motion of their bodies. 

 The country to the east and north-east of this village 

 is said to be thinly peopled, but, as usual, the clans 

 are much intermixed, the two principal being "Wak- 

 imbus and Wasagaris. I here engaged a second guide 

 or leader for five shukkas (small loin-cloths) Ameri- 

 kan, as a second war, different from the one he had 

 heard of and spoken about at Kaze, had broken out 

 exactly on the road I was pursuing, and rendered my 

 first leader's experience of no avail. The evening 

 was spent by the porters in dancing, and singing a 

 song which had been evidently composed for the 

 occasion, as it embraced everybody's name connected 

 with the caravan, but more especially Mzungu (the 

 wise or white man), and ended with the prevailing 

 word amongst these curly-headed bipeds, " Grub, 

 Grub, Grub." It is wonderfid to see how long they 

 will, after a long fatiguing march, keep up these fes- 

 tivities, singing the same song over and over again, 

 and dancing and stamping, with their legs and arms 

 flying about like the wings of a semaphore, as they 

 move slowly round and r<3und in the same circle 

 and on the same ground; their heads and bodies 

 lolling to and fro in harmony with the rest of the 

 dance, which is always kept at more even measure 

 when, as on this occasion, there were some village 



