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home, she is his ; but if he should not overtake her, 
he loses the prize ! 
A very few words about the Waboni. We heard of 
them for the first time at Charra. The Gallas call 
them Juwano. At first I thought they must be a tribe 
of the Wasania, but such is not the case. They are 
reputed to possess all manner of magic powers, and are 
greatly detested and feared by the Gallas. In one par- 
ticular branch of the magic art they are reported to be 
perfect masters ; namely, the art of self-transmutation. 
They can, it is affirmed, transform themselves at will 
into serpents, crocodiles, hippopotami, elephants, cattle 
— anything you please ; but the worst is, that they 
exercise their extraordinary talents in the disreputable 
work of stealing their neighbours' children and cattle. 
The indignant victims have sometimes risen with the 
determination to punish the perpetrators of such 
villany. The robbers have been sought and found. 
There they stand, and vengeance is about to be 
wreaked upon their guilty heads, when, lo ! the robbers 
have become a multitude of ramping lions, or — the 
metamorphosis may be of another kind — a forest of 
mute and nodding trees that seem to mock the would- 
be avengers, and scorn their wildest rage, driving them 
almost to distraction with terror. The Gallas really 
believe that the Juwano possess these powers, and 
dread them even more than the Kori (Masai), terming 
them Ekera, the devil. 
They differ from the Wasania in language and 
in dress, but correspond with them in arms and pur- 
suits, at least as far as the use of bow and the practice 
of hunting are concerned. They seem, however, to be 
more closely allied to the Wapokomo and Wasuahili, 
