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situated in a north-easterly direction from Mosambique. They 
told me themselves that they were acquainted with other traders 
called Eveezi and Maravi, who had travelled far enough inland 
to see large waters, white people (this must be taken compara- 
tively) and horses. It is singular that the Monjou entertain a 
peculiar dread of the latter, running away at the approach of one 
of them as from a wild beast. 
The Monjou are negroes of the ugliest description, having 
high cheek bones, thick lips, small knots of woolly hair like 
pepper-corns on their heads, and skins of a deep shining black. 
Their arms consist of bows and arrows and very short spears with 
iron shafts. Their bows are of the simplest construction, being 
plain, strong, and formed of one stick ; their arrows long, barbed 
and poisoned. Each man, besides his bow and quiver, carries a 
small apparatus for lighting a fire, which consists simply of two 
pieces of a particular kind of dark-coloured wood, one of which 
is flat, and the other rounded like a pencil. The latter held erect 
on the centre of the former is rubbed briskly between the palms 
of the hands till it excite a flame, which it does not require more 
than a minute to effect. A mode of producing fire similar to this 
is mentioned by Mr. Bruce to have been practised by a tribe of 
Nuba, which he met with in the neighbourhood of Sennaar 
(Vol. vi. p. 345). His whole description of the tribe accords so 
nearly with the character of the Monjou, that, as they are said to 
come from the mountains Dyre and Tegla, it may not be impos- 
sible that some remote connection once subsisted between them. 
To amuse us in the evening the slaves were assembled, and, 
according to the usual practice for keeping them in health, 
