EVIDENCE OF CANNIBALISM. 
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and every step of the way was generally groping in the 
dark, for who cared where the rivers ran ? Native wars 
were a great hindrance ; unsuitable, cowardly attendants, 
an intolerable drag to both body and mind. It is more 
difficult to get reasonable evidence of the cannibalism of 
the Manyuema than might be imagined. I have tried ever 
since I came to see human flesh either cooked or eaten, 
but in vain. A linger wrapped up in a leaf was all that 
rewarded my search and offers of payment. This was 
probably a chance taken by a party which killed a man in 
revenge. The occurrence of graves frees a district from 
this imputation — their absence is suspicious, but in the 
Baekwain country a grave is never seen, and the people 
are not cannibals. Had I believed one-tenth part of the 
tales told of the Manyuema by the traders and by the 
tribes in their vicinity, I might not have ventured among 
them. My mother never frightened me with bogy, so I 
am not subject to bogyphobia, in which disease everything 
horrible is believed if imputed to a black skin. It is 
epidemic in Jamaica. 
“ It is no wonder that the Portuguese gained so little 
knowledge of this country and the drainage into the Nile. 
Their three visits to Cazembe were simply slaving expedi- 
tions. They inquired for ivory and slaves, and heard of 
nothing else. Gentlemen of good principles at Lisbon 
will now feel sorry that no higher objects animated their 
countrymen, but as a nation they had no higher aim in 
reference to us on the Shire than by thwarting our efforts 
by murder and arson, till all the people we risked life and 
fortune to elevate were swept away. 
“ I felt certain that the water-shed held the solution of 
tho problem, not because it was wished that the water-shed 
be examined, but because I had already discovered the 
chief sources of the Zambesi and the southern sources of 
the Congo. The Nile, I felt persuaded, would not bo 
essentially different. The high flanking ridges of the 
valleys of these rivers are repeated in those that begin at 
