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amongst 'vulgar errors.' Limbs were scattered 

 in all directions, and heads lay like pebbles upon 

 the beach : here I collected the 24 skulls after- 

 wards deposited in the Museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, and which it is said (Journal 

 Anthro. Soc. No. 28, xli.) Professor Busk is 

 now investigating. They were gathered at ran- 

 dom; doubtless they belonged to both sexes, and 

 they represented chiefly the slave population. 

 The latter is here mainly recruited by the 

 Wahiao, the Wagao, the Wamwera, the Wang- 

 indo, the Makonda, the Wakomango, the Wad- 

 oka, the Wakhwinde, and the other tall stout 

 races lying between Kilwa and the Nyassa Lake. 

 It will not be easy to forget one spectacle, — the 

 lower portion of some large strong man, whose 

 legs had parted at the knees, came again and 

 again, persistent as the flood, up to the very 

 walls of our dwelling, and bowing with the 

 ripple, it seemed to claim acquaintance with us. 



There was no subsequent attack of cholera on 

 the Zanzibar coast till early 1870, when one- 

 third of the native population was reported to 

 have been swept away. In six weeks, besides 

 13 out of the score which composed the Euro- 

 pean and American residents at Unguja, 10,000 

 people perished in the city, 30,000 on the Island : 



