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When I asked Makwenda how they punished a 

 man who had killed somebody, he replied, " They 

 never did anything bad now they knew Euro- 

 peans " ; a delicious piece of humbug. 



Everywhere I found the people most anxious 

 for Europeans to come and settle amongst them, 



Fig. 19. — Mhima Chief. 



and Kasagama himself was very pleased with the 

 idea. The benefit to the natives would be in- 

 calculable, chiefly as a protection against the 

 standing danger of invasion. During the recent 

 raid of Kabbarega, for instance, the unfortunate 

 Wakondja took refuge on the higher parts of the 

 mountain, and in the deepest parts of the forest, 



