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take offence at a drunken boy’s extravagant freak. In 
bis insane fury he had attempted to slash at one of my 
men with a billhook he carried. This had been taken as 
a declaration of hostilities, and the soldiers were ready 
enough to engage in war ; but there was no necessity to 
commence fighting with a drunken mob, who could have 
been cleared off the ground with our revolvers alone 
had we desired it. 
The Doctor, baring his arm, said to them that he was 
not a Mgwana, or an Arab ; but a white man ; that Arabs 
and Wangwana had no such colour as we had. We were 
FISHES OF THE TANGANIKA. 
white men, different people altogether from those whom 
they were accustomed to see ; that no black men had 
ever suffered injury from white men. This seemed to 
produce great effect, for after a little gentle persuasion 
the drunken youth, and his no less inebriate sire, were 
induced to sit down to talk quietly. In their conversa- 
tion with us, they frequently referred to Mombo, the 
son of Kisesa, Sultan of Muzimu, who was brutally 
murdered. “ Yes, brutally murdered ! ” they exclaimed 
several times, in their own tongue ; illustrating, by a 
faithful pantomime, how the unfortunate youth had 
died. 
