he agent or familiar of a certain great spirit, placed the
stones that break the waters in the river, and, for so doing, was
applauded by his master, who, to reward his services by an appropriate
distinction, allowed the stones to be called Karuma. Near this is a tree
which contains a spirit whose attributes for gratifying the powers and
pleasures of either men or women who summon its influence in the
form appropriate to each, appear to be almost identical with that of
Mahadeo's Ligna in India.

20th.--We halted for the men to collect and lay in a store of food for
the passage of the Kidi wilderness. Presents of fish, caught in baskets,
were sent us by Kija. They were not bad eating, though all ground
animals of the lowest order. At the Grand Falls below this, Kidgwiga
informs us, the king had the heads of one hundred men, prisoners taken
in war against Rionga, cut off and thrown into the river.

21st and 22d.--The governor, who would not let us go until we saw him,
called on the 22d with a large retinue, attended by a harpist, and
bringing a present of one cow, two loads flour, and three pots of pombe.
He expected a chair to sit upon, and got a box, as at home he has a
throne only a little inferior to Kamrasi's. He was very generous to
Bombay on his former journey to Gani; and then said he thought the
white men were all flocking this way to retake their lost country; for
tradition recorded that the Wahuma were once half-black and half-white,
with half the hair straight and the other half curly; and how was this
to be accounted for, unless the country formerly belonged to white men
with straight hair, but was subsequently taken by black men? We relieved
his apprehensions by telling him his ancestors were formerly all white,
with straight hair, and lived in a country beyond the salt sea, till
they crossed that sea, took possession of Abyssinia, and are now
generally known by the name of Hubshies and Gallas; but neither of these
names was known to him.

On the east, beyond Kidi, he only knew of one clan of Wahuma, a people
who subsist entirely on meat and milk. The sportsmen of this country,
like the Wanyamuezi, plant a convolvulus of extraordinary size by the
side of their huts, and pile the jaw-bones and horns of their spoils
before, as a means of bringing good-luck. This same flower, held in
the hand when a man is searching for anything that he has lost, will
certainly bring him to the missing treasure. In the evenin