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arrows, as an Unyambo, Seedee or Wanyamuezi would 
do. They planted their spears, tucked up their bark 
clothes, and wrestled until one knocked the other 
down, and held him till he gave in. Previous to 
our leaving the finely-kept grounds of Kittareh (the 
man owning the beagle), he brought out a stirrup- 
cup of wine and some boiled plantain-squash for the 
Waganda lads, who, having finished all, knelt in a 
body before the old man to thank him for his polite- 
ness. This they did by diagonally swinging their 
hands placed together, and repeating the words 
" N yans, N yans," or " M'wambeea, MVambeea," in 
a loud chorus — after which, all sprang up, looking 
grateful and happy. The upper class are in the habit 
of making speeches. On a present being put into 
their hands, they hold it, and talk for five minutes 
expressing thanks. The Waganda mode of salute on 
meeting a friend is peculiar : neither party smiles 
until the words " Nyo, Nyi, Nyogeh," are repeated 
alternately by each many times, when one makes bold 
to address a sentence, then resumes the " Nyo " once 
or twice, and after these formalities a conversation 
may with propriety commence. When the women 
wish to show respect to a superior, they kneel before 
him like the Wanyamuezi women. All these social 
forms are as scrupulously attended to in Africa as the 
ceremonies at the most polite court of Europe. 
On the march we never knew where we were to halt 
for the day. The men did not know themselves ; 
they could not tell the probable time of arrival, so 
that the dinner-hour was always uncertain ; and if 
our baggage was tied up by seven in the morning, 
we seldom left before eleven : once off, we continued 
