. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. y twenty-four squareyards, drawn in double folds about his waist, all tags,tassels, and fringes, and painted in various colouxs, bronzeand black and white and yellow, and on his head a plumyhead-dress. What charms lurk in feathers ! From the grand Britishdowager down to Mwaua-Ngoy of Ka-Bambarre, all admitthe fascination of feathers, whether plucked from ostriches orbarn-door fowl. Mwana Ngoys plumes were the tribute of the villagechanticl
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. y twenty-four squareyards, drawn in double folds about his waist, all tags,tassels, and fringes, and painted in various colouxs, bronzeand black and white and yellow, and on his head a plumyhead-dress. What charms lurk in feathers ! From the grand Britishdowager down to Mwaua-Ngoy of Ka-Bambarre, all admitthe fascination of feathers, whether plucked from ostriches orbarn-door fowl. Mwana Ngoys plumes were the tribute of the villagechanticleers, and his vanity was so excited at the rustle of hisfeathered crest that he protruded his stomach to such adistance that his head was many degrees from the perpen-dicular. Oct. 10.—On the lOth of October we arrived at Kizambala,presided over by another chief, called Mwana Ngoy, a relativeto him of Ka-Bambarre. Up to this date we hud seen some tw^enty villages, and 64 THROUGH THE DAEK CONTINENT. [L876. probably 4000 natives, of Manyema, and may therefore Ijepermitted some generalizations. The Manyema, then, have several noteworthy
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