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?
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