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scene. Four drums were on duty, and the weird circle was 

 formed about the men whose office it was to make the furious 

 music. Bombay, as ever comical, never so much at home as 

 when in the dance of the Mrima, had his head adorned with his 

 master's water-bucket." Chowperch, another of Stanley's fol- 

 lowers, joined the circle with a goatskin wrapped about his head, 

 and brandished an axe wildly as he moved among the throng ; 

 Barak o flourishing a spear ; Mabruki, the " bull-headed," entered 

 into the spirit of the occasion with the tread of an elephant; 

 Ulimengo too was conspicuous, with a gun, looking as ferocious 

 as possible; two others of the caravan were before the drum- 

 mers, back to back, ambitiously shaking their heels at the stars ; 

 while Asami, the embodiment of giant strength, a towering 

 Titon, dealt desperate blows on the inoffensive air with the butt 

 end of his gun, and to finish the scene, Mr. Stanley himself 

 sprang into the circle and performed the "light fantastic toe" 

 to the intense delight of his braves. When the warlike music 

 ended, a second scene was produced. The Choragus dropt on his 

 knees and dipped his head two or three times in an excavation 

 in the ground, and the choir, also on their knees, repeated in 

 dolorous tones the last words of a slow and solemn refrain : 



Choragus. — Oh-oh-oh ! the white man is going home ! 

 Choir. — Oh-oh-oh ! going home ! 



Going home, oh-oh-oh I 



Choragus. — To the happy islands on the sea, 



Where the beads are plenty, oh-oh-oh ! 

 Choir. — Oh-oh-oh ! where the beads are plenty, 

 Oh-oh-oh ! 



Choragus. — While Singiri has kept us, oh, very long 

 From our homes, very long, oh-oh-oh ! 

 Choir. — From our homes, oh-oh-oh ! 

 Oh-oh-oh ! 



Choragus. — And we have had no food for very long — 

 We are half-starved, oh, for so long, 

 Bana Singiri ! 

 Choir. — For so very long, oh-oh-oh ! 



Bana Singiri, Singiri! 

 Singiri ! oh, Singiri ! 



