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Negro type ; dull in intellect, and stammering in 
speech. 10. Juma, a Mdigo (Mnika), over thirty years 
of age, short and stout, and of very unprepossessing 
countenance ; sour, stupid, perverse, obstinate, and 
self-willed beyond all control; stolid as an idiot 
under what is termed " a good talking to," but always 
coolly promising to mend his ways in the end. Would 
not have engaged him but I wished to do him a 
kindness. 11. Kirere, a Mribe, but an enlightened 
young man ; not prepossessing in appearance, under 
the middle size, but sinewy and strong; had often 
travelled as a porter. Has too much good sense and 
good feeling to act otherwise than with propriety. 
His great fault is an extreme fondness for the pipe. 
Would rather have stayed at home, but accepted a post 
in the caravan to please me. 12. Mungoma (drum), 
Juma's brother ; of very forbidding countenance, 
short, thick-set, fleshy, twenty-two years of age, and 
had never acted as porter before. Naturally morose 
and obstinate in disposition, religion has made him 
tractable. His intellectual is superior to his physical 
man. 13. Mugomba (plantain tree), a Mduruma ; all 
the Negro ; young and small, unused to porterage. 
Naturally very fickle, impulsive, and conceited, he 
would not be worth much but for religion, which has 
greatly improved him. 14. Kiringe, a companion of Mu- 
gomba; young, and had never travelled before. More 
truly the Negro in physical conformation than any 
Mnika I ever saw. Sugar-loaf crown ; low, flat, narrow, 
retreating forehead ; short, concave, broad nose, with 
enormous nostrils ; extremely wide mouth, with lips 
prodigiously tumid and everted ; large jaws, a retreat- 
ing chin, scarcely visible under the overhanging lips ; 
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