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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
none more severely than those that are remarkable for 
their physical powers. A national system of emigration, 
to be perfect, must not be confined to solitary and 
individual hands, who, however numerous, are ever 
pining for the past. The future will organize the 
exodus of whole villages, which, like those of the Heb- 
rides in the last century, will bear with them to new 
worlds their Lares and Penates, their wives, families, 
and friends, who will lay out the church and the church- 
yard after the old fashion familiar to their youth, and 
who will not forget the palaver-house, vulgarly called 
pothouse or pub. 
Few of .these Lestrigons lack fish, which they catch 
in weirs, fowl, flesh of dogs, goats, or sheep ; cattle is a 
luxury yet unknown, but the woods supply an abundance 
of Nyare and other “ bush-beef.” They also have their 
special word for the meat-yearning. Still in the semi- 
nomadic stage, they till the ground, and yet depend 
greatly upon the chase. They break their fast (kidiashe) 
at 6 a.m., eat a mid-day meal (amos), and sup (gogashe) 
at sunset, besides “ snacks ” all through the day when 
they can find material. They are good huntsmen, who 
fear neither the elephant (nyok), the hippopotamus 
(nyok a madzim), frequent in the rivers of the interior, 
the crocodile, nor the gorilla (njf). It is generally 
asserted — and the unfortunate Douville re-echoed the 
assertion — that the river-horse and the crocodile will 
not live together ; the reason is, simply, that upon the 
seaboard, where these animals were first observed, the 
crocodile prefers the fresh water of the river, the hippo- 
potamus the brackish water at its mouth. In the in- 
terior, of course, they dwell together in amity, because 
there is nothing for them to quarrel about. 
The banana, planted with a careless hand, supplies 
the staff of life, besides thatch, fuel, and fibre for nets 
and lines : when they want cereals, maize, liolcus, and 
panicum will grow almost spontaneously. The various 
palm-trees give building materials, oil, wine, and other 
requisites too numerous to mention. The “ five pro- 
ducts of the cow ” are ignored, as in the western liemi- 
