376 A MAN TOSSED BY A BUFFALO. 



which I consider to be real negro, the custom of slaughter- 

 ing victims to accompany the departed soul of a chief; and 

 human sacrifices are occasionally offered, and certain parts 

 of tne bodies are used as charms. It is on account of the 

 existence of such rites, with the similarity of the language, 

 and the fact that the names of rivers are repeated again 

 and again from north to south through all that region, tha; 

 I consider them to have been originally one family. The 

 last expedition to Cazembe was somewhat of the same? 

 nature as the others, and failed in establishing a commerce 

 because the people of Cazembe, who had come to Tete to 

 invite the Portuguese to visit them, had not been allowed 

 to trade with whom they might. As it had not been free 

 trade there, Cazembe did not see why it should be free 

 trade at his town : he accordingly would not allow his 

 people to furnish the party with food except at his price ; 

 and the expedition, being half starved in consequence, 

 came away voting unanimously that Cazembe was a great 

 bore. 



When we left the Loangwa, we thought we had got rid of 

 the hills; but there are some behind Mazanzwe, though five 

 or six miles off from the river. Tsetse and the hills had de- 

 stroyed two riding-oxen, and, when the little one that I now 

 rode knocked up, I was forced to march on foot. The bush 

 being very dense and high, we were going along among the 

 trees, when three buffaloes, which we had unconsciously 

 passed above the wind, thought that they were surrounded 

 by men, and dashed through our line. My ox set off at a 

 gallop, and when I could manage to glance back I saw one 

 of the men up in the air about five feet above a buffalo, 

 which was tearing along with a stream of blood running 

 down his flank. When I got back to the poor fellow, I 

 found that he had lighted on his face, and, though he had 

 been carried on the horns of the buffalo about twenty yards 

 before getting the final toss, the skin was not pierced, nor 

 was a bone broken. When the beasts appeared, he had 

 thrown down his load and stabbed one in the side. It 



