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CHAPTER IV. 



Degraded state of the Manyuema. Want of writing materials. Lion's 

 fat a specific against tsetse. The Neggeri. Jottings about Merere. 

 Various sizes of tusks. An epidemic. The strangest disease of all ! 

 The New Year. Detention at Bambarre. Goitre. News of the 

 cholera. Arrival of coast caravan. The parrot's-feather challenge. 

 Murder of James. Men arrive as servants. They refuse to go north. 

 Parts at last with malcontents. Receives letters from Dr. Kirk and 

 the Sultan. Doubts as to the Congo or Nile. Katomba presents a 

 young soko. Forest scenery. Discrimination of the Manyuema. They 

 "want to eat a white one." Horrible bloodshed by Ujiji traders. 

 Heartsore and sick of blood. Approach Nyangwe. Reaches the 

 Lualaba. 



&h December, 1870. — Oh, for Dugumbd or Syde to come ! 

 but this delay may be all for the best. The parrots all 

 seize their food, and hold it with the left hand, the lion, 

 too, is left-handed ; he strikes with the left, so are all 

 animals left-handed save man. 



I noticed a very pretty woman come past this quite 

 jauntily about a month ago, on marriage with Monasimba. 

 Ten goats were given ; her friends came and asked another 

 goat, which being refused, she was enticed away, became 

 sick of rheumatic fever two days afterwards, and died 

 yesterday. Not a syllable of regret for the beautiful young 

 creature does one hear, but for the goats : " Oh, our ten 

 goats!" — they cannot grieve too much — "Our ten goats — 

 oh! oh!" 



Basanga wail over those who die in bed, but not over 

 those who die in battle : the cattle are a salve for all sores. 



