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hands from blood and plunder. The chiefs and prin- 

 cipal men, if they have no higher motives, keep their 

 different tribes in order, and do not molest travellers 

 without good cause, or from provocation, as they know 

 that protecting the traveller is the only way in which 

 they can keep up that connection with the commerce 

 of the coast which they all so much covet. It may 

 be worthy of remark that I have always found the 

 lighter-coloured savages more boisterous and warlike 

 than those of a dingier hue. The ruddy black, fleshy- 

 looking "VVazaramos and "\Vagogos are much lighter in 

 colour than any of the other tribes, and certainly have 

 a far superior, more manly and warlike independent 

 spirit and bearing than any of the others. 



We started early on the 9th, and crossed the Jordan 

 by a ferry at a place lower down than on the first 

 occasion. After leaving the low land, we rose up to 

 the higher ground where we had first gained a sight 

 of the X'yanza's waters, and noAV took our final view. 

 To myself the parting with it was a matter of great 

 regret ; but I believe I was the sole sufferer from dis- 

 appointment in being obliged to go south, when all 

 my thoughts or cares were in the north. But this 

 feeling was much alleviated by seeing the happy, con- 

 tented, family state to which the whole caravan had 

 at length arrived. Going home has the same attrac- 

 tion with these black people that it has with school- 

 boys. The Belooches have long since behaved to ad- 

 miration, and now even the lazy pagazis, since com- 



