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fully afraid of being killed and eaten; one man out in 

 search of ivory seemed to have lost sight of his companions, 

 for they saw him running with all his might to a forest 

 with no path in it ; he was searched for for several days, 

 and was given up as a murdered man, a victim of the 

 cannibal Manyuema ! On the seventh day after he lost his 

 head, he was led into camp by a headman, who not only 

 found him wandering but fed and lodged and restored him 

 to his people. 



[With reference to the above we may add that nothing 

 can exceed the terror in which cannibal nations are held by 

 other African tribes. It was common on the Eiver Shire to 

 hear Manganja and Ajawa people speak of tribes far away 

 to the north who eat human bodies, and on every occasion 

 the fact was related with the utmost horror and disgust.] 



The women here plait the hair into the form of a basket 

 behind ; it is first rolled into a very long coil, then wound 

 round something till it is about 8 or 10 inches long, pro- 

 jecting from the back of the head. 



5th, 6th, and 1th January. — Wettings by rain and grass 

 overhanging our paths, with bad water, brought on choleraic 

 symptoms ; and opium from Mohamad had no effect in stop- 

 ping it : he, too, had rheumatism. On suspecting the water as 

 the cause, I had all I used boiled, and this was effectual, but 

 I was greatly reduced in flesh, and so were many of our party. 



We proceeded nearly due north, through wilderness and 

 many villages and running rills; the paths are often left 

 to be choked up by the overbearing vegetation, and then 

 the course of the rill is adopted as the only clear passage ; 

 it has also this advantage, it prevents footmarks being fol- 

 lowed by enemies : in fact the object is always to make 

 approaches to human dwellings as difficult as possible, 

 even the hedges around villages sprout out and grow a 

 living fence, and this is covered by a great mass of a species 



