AN AFRICAN BEAUTY. 
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nse the word, like on new coinage, it feels an injury, done 
one’s self to see a bit of grass stuck through the cartilage 
of the nose so as to bulge out the alse nasi, or wing of the 
nose of the anatomist. 
Cazembe’s Queen, Moazia Nyombe by name, would be 
esteemed a real beauty in London, Paris, or New York, 
and yet she had a small hole through the cartilage, near 
the tip of her fine slightly aquiline nose. JBut she had 
only filed one side of two of the front of her superb snow- 
white teeth, and then what a laugh she had ! Let those who 
wish to know go see her. She was carried to her farm in 
a pony phaeton, which is a sort of throne, fastened in two 
very long poles and carried by twelve stalwart citizens. 
If they take the Punch motto of Cazembo, “ Niggars don’t 
require to be shot here,” as their own, they may show 
themselves to be men ; but whether they do or not, Cazembe 
will show himself a man of sterling good sense. 
Now, these people, so like ourselves internally, have 
brave, genuine human souls. Rua, large sections of country 
northwest of Cazembe, but still in same inland region, is 
peopled with men very like those of Wsama and Cazembe. 
An Arab, Syed Ben Habib, was sent to trade in Rua two 
years ago, and, ns Arabs usually do where natives have no 
guns, Syed Ben Habib’s elder brother carried matters with 
a high hand. The Rua men observed the elder brother 
slept in a white tent, and pitching spears into it by night 
killed him. As Moslems never forgive blood, the younger 
brother forthwith “ran a muck” on all indiscriminately in 
a large district. Let it not be supposed any of these people 
are, like American Indians, insatiable, blood-thirsty sav- 
ages, who will not be reclaimed or entertain terms of lasting 
friendship with fair-dealing strangers. Had tho actual 
murderers been demanded, and a little time granted, I feel 
morally certain, from many other instances among tribes 
who, like the Ba Rua, have not been spoiled by Arab tra- 
ders, they would all have been given up. The chiefs of 
the country would, first of all, have specified the crime of 
