PENALTIES AND WITCHCRAFT. 657 



S. " In cases of murder, what do you do to the man who 

 kills another ?" 



T. " The murderer has to pay fifty cows. If he is too poor 

 to pay, the sultan gives his permission to the murdered man's 

 friends or relatives to kill him. If they catch him they tie him 

 to a tree aud throw spears at him, one at a time, first ; they then 

 spring on him, cut his head off, then his arms and limbs and 

 scatter them about the country." 



S. " How do you punish a thief ?" 



T. " If he is found stealing he is killed at once and nothing 

 is said about it. Is he not a thief ?" 



S. " But suppose you do not know who the thief is ? " 



T. " If a man is brought before us accused of stealing we 

 kill a chicken : if the entrails are white, he is innocent ; if yellow, 

 he is guilty." 



S. " Do you believe in witchcraft ? " 



T. " Of course we do, and punish the man with death who 

 bewitches cattle or stops rain." 



There was very little temptation to loiter in Ugogo, and all 

 possible expedition was used in passing through it. Mr. Stan- 

 ley was exceedingly anxious to reach Unyanyembe. He had 

 already picked up bits of information which encouraged him to 

 hope that he might soon be able to report the success of his 

 mission. Early in April, while on the banks of the Unger- 

 engere, he had met one Salim bin Rasheed, who said, " I saw 

 the musungu (white man), who came up from the Nyassa a 

 long time ago, at Ujiji last year. He lived in the next tembe 

 to me. He has a long white moustache and beard. He was 

 then about going to Marungu and Uniema." 



On the 18th of May Sheikh Abdullah bin Wasif had called 

 at his camp at Mpwapwa and told him " the musungu has gone 

 to Manyuema, a month's march from Ujiji. He has met a bad 

 accident, having shot himself in the thigh while out hunting 

 buffaloes. When he gets well he will return to Ujiji." Stimu- 

 lated by these reports every energy was exerted, and on the 

 thirtieth day after entering Ugogo Mr. Stanley was in Unyan- 

 yembe, at the village of Kwihara. 



He had been singularly successful thus far, and though he 

 had been pretty thoroughly initiated into the vicissitudes of 



