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ornamentation would have supplied another instance to 

 the ingenious author of " Anthropometamorphosis." * 

 u Don't know's " morals were frightful. She was duly 

 espoused — as the forlorn hope of making her an " honest 

 woman " — to Goha, the sturdiest of the Wak'hutu por- 

 ters ; after a week she treated him with a sublime con- 

 tempt. She gave him first one, then a dozen rivals ; 

 she disordered the caravan by her irregularities ; she 

 broke every article entrusted to her charge, as the 

 readiest way of lightening her burden, and — " le moindre 

 defaut d'une femme galante est de l'etre " — she deserted 

 so shamelessly that at last Said bin Salim disposed of 

 her, at Unyanyembe, for a few measures of rice, to a 

 travelling trader, who came the next morning to com- 

 plain of a broken head. 



Isa bin Hijji did us various good services. He and 

 his companions kindly waited some days to superintend 

 our preparations for crossing the Rubeho Range. They 

 supplied useful hints for keeping the caravan together 

 at different places infamous for desertion. They gave 

 me valuable information about Ugogo and Ujiji, and 

 they placed at my disposal their house at Unyanyembe. 

 They " wigged " the Kirangozi, or guide, for careless- 

 ness in not building a kraal-fence every night, and for 



* Anthropometamorphosis : Man-transformed : or the Artificial Changeling, 

 historically presented, In the mad and cruel Gallantry, foolish Bravery, 

 Ridiculous Beauty, filthy Finenesse, and loathsome Loveliness of most 

 NATIONS, fashioning and attiring their Bodies from the mould intended 

 by NATURE ; with figures of these Transfigurations. To which artificial 

 and affected Deformations are added, all the Native and National 

 Monstrosities that have appeared to disfigure the Humane Fabrick. With 

 a VINDICATION of the Regular Beauty and Honesty of NATURE. 

 With an Appendix of the Pedigree of the ENGLISH GALLANT. 

 Scripsit J. B. Cognomento Chirosophus, M.D "In nova fert animus, 

 mutatas dicere formas." London : Printed by William Hunt, Anno. Dom. 

 1653. 



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