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were completely overpowered, and compelled by the Man- 

 yuema to lay down their guns and powder-horns, on pain 

 of being instantly despatched by bowshot: they were 

 mostly slaves, who could only draw the trigger and make 

 a noise. Katomba had to rouse out all the Arabs who could 

 shoot, and when they came they killed many, and gained 

 the lost day ; the Manyuema did not kill anyone who laid 

 down his gun and powder-horn. This is the beginning of 

 an end which was easily perceived when it became not a 

 trading, but a foray of a murdering horde of savages. 



The foray above mentioned was undertaken by Katomba 

 for twenty goats from Kassessa ! — ten men lost for twenty 

 goats, but they will think twice before they try another 

 foray. 



A small bird follows the " Sassassa" or Buceros cristata. 

 It screams and pecks at his tail till he discharges the 

 contents of his bowels, and then leaves him; it is called 

 " play " by the natives, and by the Suaheli " Utane " or 

 " Msaha " — fun or wit ; he follows other birds in the same 

 merciless Avay, screaming and pecking to produce purging ;, 

 Manyuema call this bird " Mambambwa." The buffalo bird 

 warns its big friend of danger, by calling " Chachacha," and 

 the rhinoceros bird cries out, " Tye, tye, tye, tye," for the same 

 purpose. The Manyuema call the buffalo bird "Mojela,'* 

 and the Suaheli, " Chassa." A climbing plant in Africa is 

 known as " Ntulungope," which mixed with flour of dura 

 kills mice ; they swarm in our camp and destroy everything, 

 but Ntulungope is not near this. 



The Arabs tell me that one dollar a day is ample for 

 provisions for a large family at Zanzibar ; the food consists- 

 of wheat, rice, flesh of goats or ox, fowls, bananas, milk, 

 butter, sugar, eggs, mangoes, and potatoes. Ambergris is 

 boiled in milk and sugar, and used by the Hindoos as a 

 means of increasing blood in their systems ; a small quantity 

 is a dose ; it is found along the shore of the sea at Barawa or 



