manua's plans for retiring. 
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men had arrived from Gondokoro reporting that three 
boats were lying there ; we concluded they must he 
those of Frith, Petherick, and De Bono, and we were 
delighted at the prospect of meeting Petherick. The 
time we were detained by the Toorkees, because they 
had difficulty in procuring porters to carry their ivory 
to Gondokoro, was occupied in botanising or gossiping 
with our men. Manua, the " Man of the Moon," was 
forming his plans as to what he would do after he 
got paid for the journey. He said, very truly, that 
Zanzibar life would not suit him ; he could not afford 
it ; because if he retired there, he would have to pay 
for water, food, drink, clothing, and house-room. His 
plan, therefore, was to purchase beads and cloths and 
take them for sale to his native land of Unyamuezi — 
a resolution which shows the mercantile nature of his 
race. This little fellow was very intelligent, and a 
great traveller. He talked in high praise of his late 
king, Foondeekeera, and was quite in raptures when 
he mentioned his name. It seems that before the 
king's death a man and woman were suspected of 
having worked an enchantment upon him, and they 
were slain ; but the king died nevertheless ; none of 
his wives were buried with him, and a house was 
built over the grave. The chief of Wakeembwah, to 
the west of Unyamuezi, is laid in the bed of a small 
stream when he dies, and fifty living women (his 
wives), and fifty men, are tied to frames and drowned 
in the same stream to commemorate the event. Their 
race practise the rite of circumcision, which is excep- 
tional in Central Africa. 
Between the district of Madi and Gondokoro there is 
a tract of country 40 miles long, inhabited by the Bari, 
