A MEKMAN. 
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sounded my praises as a true specimen of the variety of 
white men who live in the sea. “Only look at his hair; it 
is made quite straight by the sea-water I” 
I explained to them again and again that, when it was 
said we came out of the sea, it did not moan that we came 
from beneath the water; but the fiction has boon widely 
spread in the interior by tho Mambari that the real white 
men llvo in tho sea, and tho myth was too good not to be 
taken advantage of by my companions : so, notwithstand- 
ing my injunctions, I believe that, when I was out of hoar- 
ing, my men always represented thomsolves as led by a 
genuine merman : “Just see his hair !” If I returned from 
walking to a little distance, they would remark of some to 
whom they had been holding forth, “ Those people want tc 
see your hair.” 
As tho strangers had woolly hair like thomselves, I had 
to give up tho idea of meeting any thing more European 
than two half-caste Portuguese ongaged in trading for 
slaves, ivory, and bees’ -wax. 
16</t. — After a short march we came to a most love lyvalloy 
about a mile and a half wido, and stretching away east- 
ward up to a low prolongation of Monalcadzi. A small 
stream meanders down tho centre of this pleasant groon 
glon; and on a little rill, which flows into it from tho 
western sido, stands the town of Kabompo, or, as ho likes 
best to bo called, Shinto. (Lat. 12° 37' 35" S., long. 22° 
47' E.) When Manonko thought the sun was high enough 
for us to make a lucky entrance, wo found tho town em- 
bowered in banana and othor tropical trees having great 
expansion of leaf; tho stroots are straight, and present a 
oompleto contrast to those of tho Bochuanas, which aro all 
very tortuous. Here, too, wo first saw nativo huts with 
square wails and round roofs. Goats were browsing about, 
and, when wo made our appearance, a crowd of negroes, 
all fully armed, ran toward us as if they would eat us up ; 
some had guns, but the manner in which they were held 
showed that the owners were more accustomed to bows 
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