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their sovereign will and pleasure. This view obtained credence 
more and more, and took such firm root in their minds at last that 
I feared that they offered up sacrifices of atonement to their 
deities for weeks after, so that they might be freed from the 
spell. This mad idea subsequently caused Czekanowski a great 
many difficulties when a special sociological investigation was 
undertaken. 
Before closing these remarks on the Batwa I would like to 
mention a few of their names, which sound curious when trans¬ 
lated. These are some of the meanings attached to them as 
Barthelemy told .me: “ Gunsu,” for instance, is the name given to 
a species of jackal; “ Sebulese ” means foster-father; “ Semisse,” 
father-of-the-liane; “ Luhango ” means that he-is-born-from-the- 
river; “ Bigirimana,” he-is-with-the-deity ; “ Bitahungo ”—a son 
of Gunsu—means I-do-not-flee ; and “ Semabi ”—another of 
Gunsu’s sons~his-father-is-dirt! 
As already mentioned, amongst the larger mammals of the 
Bugoie forest besides the elephants there are buffaloes, the western 
variety with small horns lying back, which Schubotz also came 
across in the Rugege forest south of Lake Kiwu. Only Raven 
was successful in killing'a specimen. Although I came within a 
few paces of them at least ten times, without however seeing a 
hair of them, I only once managed to get in a shot. In spite of 
a lengthy pursuit, I had to give up the chase. All further 
attempts failed, although we scoured the neighbourhood from six 
to eight hours daily for a fortnight. These excursions, at the 
heels of the nimble Batwa guides, over summits of some 2,500 
metres in height, over slippery ground and through the difficult 
underwood, were about the most exhausting of our efforts during 
the whole expedition. Twice I had to take in a hole in my belt, 
which, as a rule, was fairly tight. 
The Batwa knew the favourite haunts of the beasts, or gener¬ 
ally found them very quickly, and watching scouts informed each 
other loudly through the forest of the buffaloes' exact location, 
without in the least appearing to disturb them. A favourite way 
that the Batwa have of capturing these animals is to trap them. 
