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RUMANIKA OF KARAGUE. 
Eumanika, not the eldest, was found to be the only 
one of the three competent, or who felt conscientiously 
that he could support the dignity of the position by 
raising this weight from the ground ; consequently he 
was elected. From that time a younger brother, Eo- 
gaerah, became his bitter enemy, and fled to a corner 
of the province, taking with him a great proportion of 
the people with their cattle, as he was the more gener- 
ous and the greater favourite of the two brothers. 
But Eumanika's mother had to be got rid of before 
he could properly hold the reins of government ; and 
by some magic medicine she was killed, and he was 
declared " M'kama of Karague." 
Although illness prevented my seeing so much of 
Eumanika as I should otherwise have liked, I could 
not but notice that he was the handsomest and most 
intelligent sovereign we had met with in Africa. He 
stood six feet two inches in height, and his counte- 
nance had a fine, open, mild expression. There was 
nothing of the African look about him, except that he 
had wool instead of hair. His dress was a robe of 
numerous skins of small antelopes sewn together, and 
knotted over one shoulder, with a loin-cloth underneath; 
or an Arab cloak or shawl of bark-cloth hung from 
his shoulder, reaching below the knee. Going about 
with nothing on his head, his arms bare, except 
common ornaments of beads or brass, with painted 
porcelain beads on his ankles, and carrying a long 
staff, he was altogether the picture of the gentle shep- 
herd of his flock. His four young sons, of ages from 
sixteen to twenty-four, were tall, smart, nice-looking 
young fellows — quite gentlemanly in their manners, 
and very cleanly in their persons and dress. There 
