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A BRAVE GERMAN AMONG THE CANNIBALS 
On the 19th of March, the Welle, a grand river flowing to the 
west, and 800 feet in breadth, was reached; and at this point ambas¬ 
sadors from Munza, king of the Monbuttoo, came to greet the travelers 
on their entrance into his kingdom. Nearly all the people of this part 
of Africa are cannibals; and’ though some prefer to conceal from the 
traveler their indulgence in human flesh, the Niam-Niam make no 
secret of it at all. They string the teeth of their victims round their 
necks, and have stakes erected round their buildings adorned with the 
skulls of the men they have eaten. The Nubians who accompanied 
Schweinfurth had all the time the greatest dread of the natives, for 
they knew, if one of them lagged behind, what would be his certain 
fate; and they asserted that even the bodies of the dead were often 
found to have been disinterred and carried off by the Niam-Niams for 
their horrible banquets. 
The people of Monbuttoo, ruled over by King Munza, are very 
like the Niam-Niam, and they, too, are undoubted cannibals. A grand 
reception was awaiting the traveler in the king’s palace. Immense 
crowds of natives had flocked thither to gaze on the white man, and 
officials with sticks marched about among the mob in the open space, 
vigorously knocking the little boys on the head’, for all the world like 
parish beadles in England. Behind the king’s seat hundreds of orna¬ 
mental lances and spears, all of pure copper, were ranged closely 
together, and in the glare of the noonday sun these shone like a line of 
flashing torches. After a delay of more than an hour, during which 
the king was being adorned in his harem, the trumpeters began to blow 
their enormous ivory horns, the drums made a deafening noise, and a 
number of officials with heavy iron bells added to the din. Then, 
looking neither to right nor left, with a long, firm stride, came the 
king, Munza, and flung himself down on his chair of state. His arms, 
leg, neck, and breast were all covered with copper rings and chains, 
and a large copper crescent was placed on the top of an enormous sort 
of chignon about a foot and a half high, forming part of a crown made 
of closely plaited reeds covered with three layers of parrots’ feathers, 
and crowned with a plume of the same. His whole body was smeared 
with the unguent of powdered cam-wood, and his single garment was 
a large piece of fig-bark, which, falling round his body, served as waist- 
