It Is Considered As Guilt Among All The Tribes."
I Gave Him Credit For Truthfulness, And He Allowed Us To Move On
Without Farther Molestation.
After leaving his village we marched in the bed of a sand-river
a quarter of a mile broad, called Tangwe.
Walking on this sand
is as fatiguing as walking on snow. The country is flat,
and covered with low trees, but we see high hills in the distance.
A little to the south we have those of the Lobole. This region is very much
infested by lions, and men never go any distance into the woods alone.
Having turned aside on one occasion at midday, and gone a short distance
among grass a little taller than myself, an animal sprung away from me
which was certainly not an antelope, but I could not distinguish
whether it was a lion or a hyaena. This abundance of carnivora made us
lose all hope of Monahin. We saw footprints of many black rhinoceroses,
buffaloes, and zebras.
After a few hours we reached the village of Nyakoba. Two men,
who accompanied us from Monina to Nyakoba's, would not believe us when we said
that we had no beads. It is very trying to have one's veracity doubted,
but, on opening the boxes, and showing them that all I had was perfectly
useless to them, they consented to receive some beads off Sekwebu's waist,
and I promised to send four yards of calico from Tete. As we came away
from Monina's village, a witch-doctor, who had been sent for, arrived,
and all Monina's wives went forth into the fields that morning fasting.
There they would be compelled to drink an infusion of a plant named "goho",
which is used as an ordeal.
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