864 an ALBINO MURDERED BY HI3 mother. 
between the ranges of hills which flank the Zambesi, the 
rains folt warm. At sunriso the thormometcr stood at from 
82° to 86° ; at mid-day in tho coolest shade, namely, in my 
little tent under a shady troo, at 96° to 98° ; and at sunsot 
it is 86°. This is different from any thing wo experienced 
in tho interior; for these rains always bring down tho mer- 
cury to 72° or even 68°. There, too, wo found a small, 
black coleopterous insect, which stung like tho mosquito 
but injected less poison : it puts us in mind of that insect, 
which does not exist in tho high lands wo had loft. 
January 6, 1856. — Each villago wo passed furnished us 
with a couple of men to take us on to tho next. They 
were useful in showing us tho parts least covored with 
jungle. When wo camo near a villago, wo saw mon, 
women, and children employed in wcoding their gardens, 
they hoing great agriculturists. Most of tho men are 
muscular, and have largo ploughman-hands. Their coloi 
is tho samo admixture — from very dark to light olive— 
that wo saw in Londa. Though all havo thick lips and 
flat noses, only tho more degraded of tho population pos- 
sess the ugly negro physiognomy. They mark themselves 
by a lino of littlo raised cicatrices, each of which is a quar- 
ter of an inch long : thoy extend from tho tip of tho nose 
to tho root of tho hair on tho forehead. It is romarkablo 
that I never met with an albino in crossing Africa, 
though, from accounts published by tho Portuguese, 1 was 
led to expect that thoy wero hold in favor as doctors by 
certain chiefs. I saw several in tho south : ono at Kuru 
man is a full-grown woman, and a man having this pecu- 
liarity of skin was met with in tho colony. Their bodies 
aro always blistered on exposure to tho sun, as the skin 
is more tender than that of tho blacks. Tho Kv.nunan 
woman lived somo time at Kolobeng, and generally had on 
her bosom and shoulders tho remains of largo blisters- 
She was most anxious to bo mado black; but nitrato of 
silver, taken intornally, did not produce its usual effoot- 
During the time 1 resided at Mabotsa, a woman came to 
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