ooting powers, could
have accomplished such a great feat as this. It is no wonder the English
are the greatest men in the world."

Neither the Wanyambo nor the Wahuma would eat the rhinoceros, so I was
not sorry to find all the Wanyamuezi porters of the Arabs at Kufro,
on hearing of the sport, come over and carry away all the flesh. They
passed by our camp half borne down with their burdens of sliced flesh,
suspended from poles which they carried on their shoulders; but
the following day I was disgusted by hearing that their masters had
forbidden their eating "the carrion," as the throats of the animals
had not been cut; and, moreover, had thrashed them soundly because they
complained they were half starved, which was perfectly true, by the poor
food that they got as their pay.

12th.--On visiting Rumanika again, and going through my geographical
lessons, he told me, in confirmation of Musa's old stories, that in
Ruanda there existed pigmies who lived in trees, but occasionally came
down at night, and, listening at the hut doors of the men, would wait
until they heard the name of one of its inmates, when they would call
him out, and, firing an arrow into his heart, disappear again in the
same way as they came. But, more formidable even than these little men,
there were monsters who could not converse with me, and never
showed themselves unless they saw women pass by; then, in voluptuous
excitement, they squeezed them to death. Many other similar stories were
then told, when I, wishing to go, was asked if I could kill hippopotami.
Having answered that I could, the king graciously said he would order
some canoes for me the next morning; and as I declined because Grant
could not accompany me, as a terrible disease had broken out in his leg,
he ordered a pig-shooting party. Agreeably with this, the next day I
went out with his sons, numerously attended; but although we beat the
covers all day, the rain was so frequent that the pigs would not bolt.

14th.--After a long and amusing conversation with Rumanika in the
morning, I called on one of his sisters-in-law, married to an elder
brother who was born before Dagara ascended the throne. She was another
of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours. I
was desirous to obtain a good view of her, and actually to measure
her, and induced her to give me facilities for doing so, by offering in
return to show her a bit of my naked legs and arms. The bait took