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these sores is one of the night sounds of a slave-camp : they 

 eat through everything — muscle, tendon, and bone, and often 

 lame permanently if they do not kill the poor things. Medi- 

 cines have very little effect on such wounds : their periodi- 

 city seems to say that they are allied to fever. The Arabs 

 make a salve of bees'-wax and sulphate of copper, and this 

 applied hot, and held on by a bandage affords support, but 

 the necessity of letting the ichor escape renders it a painful 

 remedy: I had three ulcers, and no medicine. The native 

 plan of support by means of a stiff leaf or bit of calabash 

 was too irritating, and so they continued to eat in and 

 enlarge in spite of everything: the vicinity was hot, and 

 the pain increased with the size of the wound. 



2nd August. — An eclipse at midnight : the Moslems 

 called loudly on Moses. Very cold. 



On 17th August, Monanyembe, the chief who was 

 punished by Mohamad Bogharib, lately came bringing two 

 goats ; one he gave to Mohamad, the other to Moenekuss' 

 son, acknowledging that he had killed his elder brother : 

 he had killed eleven persons over at Linamo in our absence, 

 in addition to those killed in villages on our S.E. when we 

 were away. It transpired that Kandahara, brother of old 

 Moenekuss, whose village is near this, killed three women 

 and a child, and that a trading man came over from Kasan- 

 gangaye, and was murdered too, for no reason but to eat 

 his body. Mohamad ordered old Kandahara to bring ten 

 goats and take them over to Kasangangaye to pay for the 

 murdered man. When they tell of each other's deeds they 

 disclose a horrid state of bloodthirsty callousness. The 

 people over a hill N.N.E. of this killed a person out hoeing ; 

 if a cultivator is alone, he is almost sure of being slain. 

 Some said that people in the vicinity, or hysenas, stole the 

 buried dead; but Posho's wife died, and in Wanyamesi 

 fashion was thrown out of camp unburied. Mohamad 

 threatened an attack if Manyuema did not cease exhuming 



