3IO TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
fions, traverfing and laying wafte a large fpace in a fhort time. 
They leave their women behind, and are thus better adapted to 
military operations than the Furians, who follow an oppofite 
practice, never marching without a hoft of attendant females. 
The people of Bergoo feldom make Selatea. 
Some of the idolatrous nations, dependent on Bergoo, are 
reprefented as making war in a very formidable manner. The 
combatants never retreat ; and the women behind light a fire, 
in which they heat the heads of the fpears, and exchange them 
for fuch as are cooled in the combat. They alfo ufe poifoned 
weapons. 
There is a remote part of the pagan country, from which 
flaves are brought, which the Arabs diftinguifh by the term 
Gnmn Gjium, (a fobriquet,) whofe inhabitants eat the flefh of 
the prifoners they take in war. I have converfed with flaves 
who carne thence, and they admit the fad. Thefe people 
are alfo in the habit of ftripping off the flcin of the hands and 
faces of their flaughtered foes, which afterwards undergo fome 
preparation, and are worn as a mark of triumph. Their arms, 
a fpear or javelin, are of iron, wrought by themfelves. After 
having heated them to rednefs, they ftick the point into the 
trunk of a particular tree, and there leave the weapon till the 
juice has dried on. In this manner it acquires, as is reported, 
a moft deadly poifon. 
A few 
