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chisels. The only other instruments were bent sticks 
as pincers, and a wooden handle like that used at 
home for a firing-iron. One man had three iron hoes 
in various states of preparation ; the other was making 
needles. When the bellows-boy forgot his duty star- 
ing at me, and allowed the fire to get too brisk, the 
smith gave him a lecture, and some water from a 
brush of straw clamped the flame. 
One of the commodities which, being rare, we much 
enjoyed, was salt, brought from Kivro, a place to the 
north-west upon the Lake Lweet-an-zigeh, and which 
was perfectly pure in colour and taste. The natives 
there are said to extract it from the soil by boiling 
and evaporation. 
The amusements of the people are few, but our See- 
dees remarked that the dancing of Unyoro was supe- 
rior to what they were accustomed to see at Zanzibar. 
We had the opportunity of seeing a few of their 
dances, at which the men wore all the beads and shells 
they seemed to possess, and, forming a circle, sang 
and clapped their hands while going through some 
graceful figures. The nights were often enlivened 
by soft-sounding duets coming from the harmonicon 
and drum played across the river. 
Superstition is prevalent, from the king to his lowest 
subject. Some straws out of the thatch of a house occu- 
pied by an enemy of Kamarasi's were to be brought us, 
that, bewitched by our supernatural powers, they might 
bring calamity upon their owner, who lived miles 
away. When our rain-gauge was missed, at the hour 
for observing it, the theft was communicated to the 
king, who sent a one-eyed man with a cow's horn in 
his hand to detect the thief. The horn was capped 
