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Browne's journey. 
tersected by numerous rivers. The inhabitants 
are partly negroes and partly red or copper-colour- 
ed. The power of the chief seems to vary with 
his individual ability, which sometimes unites the 
small detached tribes, and sometimes is unable to 
accomplish this object. Their language is nasal, 
but simple and easy. They worship idols, but are 
remarkable for piuictilious honesty in their trans- 
actions, and are much more cleanly than the na- 
tions by whom they are surrounded. They pass 
their rivers in canoes, which are formed from the 
trunks of large trees. The smallest injuries are 
punished by condemning to slavery the young rela- 
tions of the offender. If the footsteps of a person 
be observed among the corn of another, or if one 
person has neglected to execute the commission of 
another, which he had undertaken, a palaver is 
held before the chief men, and the son, daughter, 
nephew, or niece, of the offender, forfeited to him 
who has sustained the injury. As death is never 
regarded as a necessary event, whenever a person 
dies, his death is supposed to have been occasion- 
ed by violence or witchcraft, and his neighbours 
are obliged to drink a species of red water for 
their justification. These customs, with the feuds 
and quarrels of rude tribes, supply the slave-mar- 
kets of Darfur and Bergoo. The chief article of 
commerce in Darkulla is salt, 12 pounds of which 
constitute the value of a young male slave, and 
