4i8 Wander mgs in Eastern Africa. 
had spoken to men about the trip to Kilima Njaro, 
so that he was really in earnest about the matter. I 
asked him what he thought about the threatened 
attack of the Wataita. He answered, "They may 
come, but I can defy them." He then left me to 
attend to some sacrificial ceremonies. He spoke of 
it as going to ''Terewa Erua " (supplicating God). 
The chief was still contemplating an attack upon 
Kirua, and these ceremonies were to be held for the 
purpose of consulting the Fates regarding the under- 
taking. Goats were to be sacrificed and incantations 
performed, for the purpose of influencing ''Erua," 
and laying the spirits of the dead. The secrets of 
the future, it is pretended, are infallibly divined by 
the muscular creepings and twitchings which take 
place in the flesh of newly-slaughtered animals. 
Most of the male population went to take part in 
these proceedings, which, for once, left me pretty 
much to myself 
