354 DISCORD AMONG THE NATIVES. [chap. ix. 
dollars each. My men look on in dismay at the hap¬ 
piness of their neighbours : like 
“ A Peri weeping at the gate 
Of Eden, stood disconsolate/’ 
so may they be seen regarding the adjoining paradise, 
where meat is in profusion, sweetened by being stolen ; 
but, alas! their cruel master does not permit them 
these innocent enjoyments. 
Everything may be obtained for cattle as payment 
in this country. The natives are now hard at work 
making zareebas (kraals) for the cattle stolen from their 
own tribe and immediate neighbours, for the sake of 
two or three bullocks as remuneration to be divided 
among more than a hundred men. They are not de¬ 
serving of sympathy; they are worse than vultures, 
being devoid of harmony even in the same tribe. The 
chiefs have no real control; and a small district, con¬ 
taining four or five towns, club together and pillage the 
neighbouring province. It is not surprising that the 
robber traders of the Nile turn this spirit of discord to 
their own advantage, and league themselves with one 
chief to rob another, whom they eventually plunder in 
his turn. The natives say that sixty-five men and 
women were killed in the attack upon Kayala. All 
the Latookas consider it a great disgrace that the 
