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nodding assent they differ from us by lifting up the chin 

 instead of bringing it down as we do. This lifting up the 

 chin looks natural after a short usage therewith, and is 

 perhaps purely conventional, not natural, as the other seems 

 to be. 



16th November. — I am tired out by waiting after finishing 

 the Journal, and will go off to-morrow north. Simon killed 

 a zebra after I had taken the above resolution, and this 

 supply of meat makes delay bearable, for besides flesh, of 

 which I had none, we can buy all kinds of grain and 

 pulse for the next few days. The women of the adjacent 

 villages crowd into this as soon as they hear of an animal 

 killed, and sell all the produce of their plantations for meat. 



17th November. — It is said that on the road to the Great 

 Salt Lake in America the bones and skulls of animals lie 

 scattered everywhere, yet travellers are often put^to great 

 straits for fuel : this, if true, is remarkable among a people 

 so apt in turning everything to account as the Americans. 

 When we first steamed up the Elver Shire our fuel ran 

 out in the elephant marsh, where no trees exist, and none 

 could be reached without passing through many miles on 

 either side of impassable swamp, covered with reeds, and 

 intersected everywhere with deep branches of the river. 

 Coming to a spot where an elephant had been slaughtered, 

 I at once took the bones on board, and these, with the bones 

 of a second elephant, enabled us to steam briskly up to 

 where wood abounded. The Scythians, according to Hero- 

 dotus, used the bones * of the animal sacrificed to boil the 

 flesh, the Guachos of South America do the same when 

 they have n© fuel : the ox thus boils himself. 



18th November. — A pretty little woman ran away from her 

 husband, and came to " Mpamari." Her husband brought 

 three hoes, a checked cloth, and two strings of large neck 



* Ezek. xxiv. 5. 



