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m'nanagee and his sons. 
and gentlemanly, always ready to give any informa- 
tion he might possess ; rather formal at first, with a 
haughty air, but ever kind in getting us provisions, 
assisting in the knowledge of plants and herbs, and 
very modest in his requests for presents. His dress 
did not differ much from the people of the country; 
the usual short leather wrapper hid his loins, and a 
sheet of cotton check kept his shoulders and body 
warm. The head was shaved bare, and a strap, hold- 
ing a charm, was tied round the back of it. Bunches 
of charms hung on his arms and from his neck and 
below the knee, and huge masses of wire were on his 
ankles. He always carried a long walking-stick, with 
a charm of wood tied at one end. A small boy, very 
fat, carried his chowrie, or fly -flapper, and a huge 
black pipe, the size of half a goose's egg, with a long 
stem. On paying me visits he was seldom accom- 
panied by any one. His eldest son measured six feet 
five inches ; but, though quite as gentle as the father, 
was not so good-looking, and seldom came to visit me. 
A younger one, not more than two or three years old, 
died while I was at Karague, rather suddenly, and 
the father mourned greatly for the child, crying most 
grievously. The body was buried, the sultan said, in 
an island on the lake, whereas his barber told me it 
was placed under rocks on the face of the hill. I am 
inclined to think the former statement correct, as the 
islands in the lake are considered sacred ground ; 
while the Wanyambo (the peasants of the country) 
deposit their dead in the waters of the lake. M nana- 
gee had a firm belief in evil spirits. He knew them 
to be about his country, and felt certain as to the 
fact; but it was possible, he thought, for clever people 
