Catching Ants.
24th-25th October, 1869.—Making copper rings, as these are highly prized by Manyuema. Mohamad's Tembé fell. It had been begun on an unlucky day, the 26th of the moon; and on another occasion on the same day, he had fifty slaves swept away by a sudden flood of a dry river in the Obena country: they are great observers of lucky and unlucky days.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] On showing Chuma and Susi some immense Cochin-China fowls at a poultry show, they said that they were not larger than those which they saw when with Dr. Livingstone on these islands. Muscovy ducks abound throughout Central Africa.—ED.
[2] The natural dress of the Malagash.
[3] The same as Unyanyembé, the half-way settlement on the great caravan road from the coast to the interior.
[4] These letters must have been destroyed purposely by the Arabs, for they never arrived at Zanzibar.—ED.
[5] It is curious that this name occurs amongst the Zulu tribes south of the Zambesi, and, as it has no vowel at the end, appears to be of altogether foreign origin.—ED.
[6] In 1859.