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" flesh of tlie bow," showing that the Pythoness loved venison 

 killed by the bow. The people applauded, and attended, 

 hoping, I suppose, that rain would follow her efforts. Next 

 day she was duly honoured by drumming and dancing* 



Prevalent beliefs seem to be persistent in certain tribes. 

 That strange idea of property in man that permits him to 

 be sold to another is among the Arabs, Manganja, Makoa, 

 Waiyau, but not among Kaffirs or Zulus, and Beckuanas. 

 If we exclude the Arabs, two families of Africans alone are 

 slavers on the east side of the Continent. 



30th November. — We march to Chilunda's or Embora's, 

 still on the Lokuzhwa, now a sand-stream about twenty yards 

 wide, with pools in its bed ; its course is pretty much north 

 or N.N.W. We are now near the Loangwa country,, 

 covered with a dense dwarf forest, and the people collected 

 in stockades. This village is on a tongue of land (between 

 Lokuzhwa and another sluggish rivulet), chosen for its 

 strength. It is close to a hill named Chipemba, and there 

 are ranges of hills both east and west in the distance. 

 Embora came to visit us soon after we arrived — a tall man 

 with a Yankee face. He was very much tickled Avhen asked 

 if he were a Motumboka. After indulging in laughter at the 

 idea of being one of such a small tribe of Manganja, he said 

 proudly, " That he belonged to the Echewa, who inhabited 

 all the country to which I was going." They are generally 

 smiths ; a mass of iron had just been brought in to him 

 from some outlying furnaces. It is made into hoes, which, 

 are sold for native cloths down the Loangwa. 



4 Chuma remembers part of the words of her song to be as follows : — 



Kowe ! kowe ! n'andambwi, 



M'vula leru, korole ko okwe, 



Waie, ona, kordi, mvula ! 

 He cannot translate it as it is pure Manganja, but with the exception of 

 the first line — which relates to a little song-bird with a beautiful note, it 

 is a mere reiteration " rain will surely come to-day." — Ed. 



