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punish our enemies, bringing me ten goats instead of the 

 three milch goats I had lost. I again explained that the 

 attack was made by a mistake in thinking I was Mohamad 

 Bogharib, and that I had no wish to kill men : to join in 

 his old feud would only make matters worse. This he could 

 perfectly understand. 



I lost all my remaining calico, a telescope, umbrella, and 

 five spears, by one of the slaves throwing down the load 

 and taking up his own bundle of country cloth. 



9th August.— Went on towards Mamohela, now deserted 

 by the Arabs. Monanponda convoyed me a long way, and 

 at one spot, with grass all trodden down, he said, " Here 

 we killed a man of Moezia and ate his body." The meat 

 cut up had been seen by Dugumbe. 



10^ August. — In connection with this affair the party 

 that came through from Mamalulu found that a' great 

 fight had taken place at Muanampunda's, and they saw the 

 meat cut up to be cooked with bananas. They did not 

 like the strangers to look at their meat, but said, " Go on, 

 and let our feast alone," they did not want to be sneered at. 

 The same Muanampunda or Monambonda told me frankly 

 that they ate the man of Moezia : they seem to eat their 

 foes to inspire courage, or in revenge. One point is very 

 remarkable ; it is not want that has led to the custom, for 

 the country is full of food: nobody is starved of fari- 

 naceous food; they have maize, dura, pennisetum, cassava 

 and sweet potatoes, and for fatty ingredients of diet, the 

 palm-oil, ground-nuts, sessamum, and a tree whose fruit 

 yields a fine sweet oil : the saccharine materials needed are 

 found in the sugar-cane, bananas, and plantains. 



Goats, sheep, fowls, dogs, pigs, abound in the villages, whilst 

 the forest affords elephants, zebras, buffaloes, antelopes, and in 

 the streams there are many varieties of fish. The nitrogenous 

 ingredients are abundant, and they have dainties in palm- 

 toddy, and tobacco or Bange: the soil is so fruitful that 



