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a state of continual famine ; but if, with all his 

 present food stuffs and the manifold resources held 

 out by their number and variety want even now 

 appears, what, we ask ourselves, could have been 

 the condition of the tribes of ancient times, when 

 the staple of that day, fish, dried game meat, or 

 what you will, became scarce, and hunger stared 

 him in the face ? I have little doubt that on being 

 assailed by the first premonitory pangs he sprang 

 to his feet, seized his weapons, and went off on a 

 hunting raid which had for its object nothing less 

 than the human game whose flesh kept body and 

 soul together until the return of better times. It 

 is a ghastly idea, 1 admit, but neither more nor less 

 improbable than many other wild and hazardous 

 theories regarding him which on examination have 

 been found to possess sufficient foundation as 

 such. 



APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII 



LIST OF PLANTS, ETC., OBSERVED IN ZAMBEZIA 



AcANTHACE^ AcANTHACE* — Continued 



Brillantaseia pubescens Barleria repens 



Thunbergia dregeana B. meyeriana 



T. kirkii Hypoestes aristata 



T. alata H. verticillaris 



Hygrophila spinosa Rbinacanthus communis 



Dyscboriste verlicillaris Amabanthaoe^ 



Ruellia prostrata Amarantbus spinosus 



Phaylopsis longifolia Achryaathes aspera 



Crabbea hirsuta Cyathula globulifera 



Barleria spinulosa Celosia trygina 



Crossandra nilotica Sericocoma chrysurus 



Asystasia coromandeliana Pupalia atropurpurea 



Justicia protracta Erva lanata 



J. betonica Alteranthera sessilis 



J. natalensis Gompbrena globosa 



