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THE YOUNG PRINCES OF KARAGUE. 
we saw no fish, and the natives never eat them. The 
macquareh attains a great size, has immense large 
scales, no feelers, and a ridge of sharp-pointed fins 
along its arched back, and eats very sweetly. These 
notes must not be accepted as a list of what the coun- 
try contains, but merely a notice of those which struck 
me as strange or interesting. 
The population of Karague may be divided into 
two races : the reigning race or Wahuma; and the 
peasantry, who originally owned, and now cultivate, 
the soil, called Wanyambo, alluded to in the preceding 
chapter. 
The king and his brothers, of the former race, have 
already been described ; a few remarks on their Mo- 
heenda or young princes may be added. This royal 
class or caste have slight marks cut below the eyes ; 
but they neither extract their teeth nor file them into 
any particular shape. Their diet of milk seems to 
make the men a tall active race, while the women get 
out of all proportion with obesity. The grown-up 
sons of the king (according to seniority) were Chun- 
dera, Kienj, Kananga, and Kukoko. First, Chundera, 
twenty-five years of age, was a smart active young 
fellow, about five feet eight inches in height, with a 
somewhat effeminate figure and expression of coun- 
tenance ; he was fair for a negro, and except that 
his lips were rather thick, and that his wool was in 
regular pepper - corns, he might be taken, from his 
straight features, for a slim East Indian sepoy. He 
affected the dandy, being more neat about his loin- 
skin cover and ornaments than the other brothers. 
He lived a gay life, was always ready to lead a war- 
party and to preside at a dance, or wherever there 
