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ture in very many of the tribes. To this is probably attributa- 

 ble the fact that Livingstone found no albinos. They are so 

 disliked that it is not uncommon to put the infants to death. 

 Parents kill their own children who are so unfortunate as to 

 possess a white face. The general absence of deformed persons 

 is partly owing to their destruction in infancy, and partly to the 

 mode of life being a natural one, so far as ventilation and food 

 are concerned. They use but few unwholesome mixtures as 

 condiments, and, though their undress exposes them to the vicissi- 

 tudes of the temperature, it does not harbor vomites. It was 

 observed that when small-pox and measles visited the country 

 they were most severe on the half-castes who were clothed. In 

 several tribes, a child which is said to " tlola," transgress, is put 

 to death. "Tlolo," or transgression, is ascribed to several curious 

 cases. A child who cut the upper front teeth before the under 

 was always put to death among the Bakaa, and, I believe, also 

 among the Bakwains. In some tribes, a case of twins renders 

 one of them liable to death ; and an ox which, while lying in 

 the pen, beats the ground with its tail, is treated in the same 

 way. It is thought to be calling death to visit the tribe. When 

 Livingstone was corning through Londa, his men carried a great 

 number of fowls, of a larger breed than any they had at home. 

 If one crowed before midnight it had been guilty of "tlolo," 

 and was killed. The men often carried them sitting on their 

 guns, and if one began to crow in a forest the owner would give 

 it a beating, by way of teaching it not to be guilty of crowing 

 at unseasonable hours. 



The friendliness of the tribes had continued so marked, that 

 Livingstone was cherishing the hope that he would find none 

 of the painful experiences which made the approach to the An- 

 gola borders the bitterest part of his former journey. It was, 

 therefore, as surprising as vexatious to find the town of Selole in 

 great excitement, and to be told that he and his party were re- 

 garded as enemies, and, to that, Selole had already sent a mes- 

 senger to the Mburuma to raise that tribe against them. These 

 warlike preparations, however, had grown out of a misunder- 

 standing of the nature of Livingstone's expedition and were easily 

 quelled by the true representations. There had been an Italian 

 in the country, who entered making the best promises, but who, 



