rial rivers. Men
may escape death in an unhealthy place, but the system is enfeebled
and energy reduced to the lowest ebb. Under such circumstances life
becomes a misery, and important results can hardly be looked for when
one's vitality is preoccupied in wrestling with the unhealthiness of
the situation, day and night.--ED.

[10] Mr. John Sunley, of Pomone, Johanna, an island in the Comoro
group.

CHAPTER IV.

Degraded state of the Manyuema. Want of writing materials.
Lion's fat a specific against tsetse. The Neggeri. Jottings
about Merere. Various sizes of tusks. An epidemic. The strangest
disease of all! The New Year. Detention at Bambarre. Goitre.
News of the cholera. Arrival of coast caravan. The
parrot's-feather challenge. Murder of James. Men arrive as
servants. They refuse to go north. Parts at last with
malcontents. Receives letters from Dr. Kirk and the Sultan.
Doubts as to the Congo or Nile. Katomba presents a young soko.
Forest scenery. Discrimination of the Manyuema. They "want to
eat a white one." Horrible bloodshed by Ujiji traders. Heartsore
and sick of blood. Approach Nyangwe. Reaches the Lualaba.

_6th December, 1870._--Oh, for Dugumbe or Syde to come! but this delay
may be all for the best. The parrots all seize their food, and hold it
with the left hand, the lion, too, is left-handed; he strikes with the
left, so are all animals left-handed save man.

I noticed a very pretty woman come past this quite jauntily about a
month ago, on marriage with Monasimba. Ten goats were given; her friends
came and asked another goat, which being refused, she was enticed away,
became sick of rheumatic fever two days afterwards, and died yesterday.
Not a syllable of regret for the beautiful young creature does one hear,
but for the goats: "Oh, our ten goats!"--they cannot grieve too
much--"Our ten goats--oh! oh!"

Basanga wail over those who die in bed, but not over those who die in
battle: the cattle are a salve for all sores. Another man was killed
within half a mile of this: they quarrelled, and there is virtually no
chief. The man was stabbed, the village burned, and the people all fled:
they are truly a bloody people!

A man died near this, Monasimba went to his wife, and after washing he
may appear among men. If no widow can be obtained, he must sit naked
behind his house till some one happens to die, all the clothes he wore
are thrown away. They