[FN#11] Rumanika's Present.

- One block-tin box, one Raglan coat, five yards scarlet broadcloth, two coils copper wire, a hundred large blue egg-beads, five bundles best variegated beads, three bundles minute beads - pink, blue, and white.

[FN#12] Nnanaji's present. - One deole or gold-embroidered silk, two coils copper wire, fifty large blue egg-beads, five bundles best variegated beads, three bundles minute beads - pink, blue and white.

[FN#13] Since named by Dr P. L. Sclater "Tragelaphus Spekii." These nzoe have been drawn by Mr Wolf, from specimens brought home by myself.

[FN#14] Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height, 5 ft. 8 in.

[FN#15] I.e. Dead Locust Lake, - Luta, dead - Nzige, locust.

[FN#16] In 'Blackwood's Magazine' for August 1859.

[FN#17] See p. 211.

[FN#18] 1 block-tin box, 4 rich silk cloths, 1 rifle (Whitworth's), 1 gold chronometer, 1 revolver pistol, 3 rifled carbines, 3 sword-bayonets, 1 box ammunition, 1 box bullets, 1 box gun-caps, 1 telescope, 1 iron chair, 10 bundles best beads, 1 set of table-knives, spoons, and forks.

[FN#19] The straight road down the Nile through Unyoro no one dares allude to at this time, as the two kings were always fighting.

[FN#20] Some say a group of forty islands compose Sese.

[FN#21] Named by Dr P. L. Sclater, Cosmetornis Spekii. The seventh pen feathers are double the length of the ordinaries, the eighth double that of the seventh, and the ninth 20 inches long.

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