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A MAN TOSSED BY A BUFFALO. 
which I consider to be real negro, the custom of slaugnter 
mg victims to accompany the departed soul of a chief; and 
human sacrifices aro occasionally offered, and certain part* 
of tno bodies aro used as charms. It is on account of the 
existence of such rites, with the similarity of the languago. 
and the fact that the names of rivers are ropoatod again 
and again from north to south through all that region, thai 
1 consider them to have been originally one family. Tin 
last expedition to Cazembo was somewhat of the same 
naturo as tho others, and failed in establishing a commerce 
becauso tho people of Cazembo, who had como to Tote to 
invito the Portuguese to visit thorn, had not been allowed 
to trade with whom they might. As it had not been free 
trade thcro, Cazembo did not sco why it should bo free 
trado at his town : he accordingly would not allow his 
pooplo to furnish tho party with food except at his price : 
and tho expedition, being half starved in consequence, 
came away voting unanimously that Cazembo was a great 
boro. 
When wo left tho Loangwa, wo thought we had got rid of 
tho hills; but there aro somo behind Mazanzwe, though live 
or six miles off from tho river. Tsetso and the hills had de- 
stroyed two riding-oxen, and, when tho little one that I now 
rode knocked up, I was forced to march on foot. Tho bush 
being very donBe and high, wo were going along among the 
trees, when throe buffaloes, which wo had unconsciously 
passed abovo tho wind, thought that they woro surrounded 
by men, and dashed through our lino. My ox set oft at a 
gallop, and when I could manago to glance back 1 saw one 
of the men up in tho air about five feet abovo a buftalo 
which was tearing along with a stream of blood running 
down his flank. When I got back to tho poor fellow, -1 
jbund that he had lighted on his face, and, though ho had 
been carried on the horns of tho buffalo about twenty yard* 
before getting the final toss, tho skin was not pierced, nor 
was a bone broken. When tho beasts appeared, he had 
thrown down his load and stabbed one i» tho side 
