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is not nice ; it makes one dream of the dead man." Some 

 west of Lualaba eat even those bought for the purpose of a 

 feast ; but I am not quite positive on this point : all agree 

 in saying that human flesh is saltish, and needs but little 

 condiment. And yet they are a fine-looking race ; I would 

 back a company of Manyuema men to be far superior in 

 shape of head and generally in physical form too against the 

 whole Anthropological Society. Many of the women are 

 very light-coloured and very pretty ; they dress in a kilt of 

 many folds of gaudy lambas. 



22nd April. — In Manyuema, here Kusi, Kunzi, is north ; 

 Mhuru, south ; Nkanda, west, or other side Lualaba ; 

 • Mazimba, east. The people are sometimes confused in name 

 by the directions ; thus Bankanda is only " the other side 

 folk." The Bagenya Chimburu came to visit me, but I did 

 not see him, nor did I know Moene Nyafigwe till too late to 

 do him honour ; in fact, every effort was made to keep me 

 in the dark while the slavers of Ujiji made all smooth for 

 themselves to get canoes. All chiefs claim the privilege of 

 shaking hands, that is, they touch the hand held out with 

 their palm, then clap two hands together, then touch again, 

 and clap again, and the ceremony concludes : this frequency 

 of shaking hands misled me when the great man came. 



2±th April. — Old feuds lead the Manyuema to entrap 

 the traders to fight : they invite them to go to trade, and 

 tell them that at such a village plenty of ivory lies ; then 

 when the trader goes with his people, word is sent that he 

 is coming to fight, and he is met by enemies, who compel 

 him to defend himself by their onslaught. We were nearly 

 entrapped in this way by a chief pretending to guide us 

 through the country near Basilarige ; he would have landed 

 us in a fight, but we detected his drift, changed our course 

 so as to mislead any messengers he might have sent, and 

 dismissed him with some sharp words. 



Lake Kamolondo is about twenty-five miles broad. The 



