. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . often, though we have seldombeen able to leave one of these awful clearings withouthaving some mans foot skewered, or some one lamed. On the 2 9til we marched to Bukiri or Myyulus, adistance of nine miles in six hours. A few natives having been tormented and persecutedto submission to the Manyuema, greeted us with criesof Bodo ! Bodo ! Ulenda ! Ulenda ! ; greetings whichthey accompanied with a flinging motion of the hand,as though they jerked Away ! away ! The chief was styled Mwani. They wore muchpolished
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . often, though we have seldombeen able to leave one of these awful clearings withouthaving some mans foot skewered, or some one lamed. On the 2 9til we marched to Bukiri or Myyulus, adistance of nine miles in six hours. A few natives having been tormented and persecutedto submission to the Manyuema, greeted us with criesof Bodo ! Bodo ! Ulenda ! Ulenda ! ; greetings whichthey accompanied with a flinging motion of the hand,as though they jerked Away ! away ! The chief was styled Mwani. They wore muchpolished ironwork, rings, bells, and anklets, and appearedto be partial to many leglets made of calamus fibre, andarmlets of the same material, after the manner ofKaragwe and Uliha. They cultivate maize, beans,plantains, and bananas, tobacco, sweet potatoes, yams,brinjalls, melons, gourds. Their goats are fine, and ofgood size. Fowls are plentiful, but fresh eggs are rare. Among some of these villages there is generally adome hut of ample size, after the manner of Unyoro,with double Busindi TEE FIRST VILLAGE OF DWARFS. 261 The following day we halted, during which the Man- iss?.yuema guides took particular care to show our people ^^^- ^^that they should have no doubt of their contempt forthem. They would not allow them to trade with thenatives for fear some desirable article would be lost tothemselves, they also vociferated at them loudly if theywere seen proceeding to the clearing to cut I told them, they did not advance in their favour inthe least by abandoning the whites, and turning a deafear to our adjurations to be manly and faithful. Aword, or even a defiant look, was visited with a sharpcut on the naked body with a rattan from slave boys ofthe six Manyuema guides with us. What awful oaths ofvengeance were uttered for all these indignities theysuffered! On the 31st we came across the first village of Dwarfs,and, during the day, across several empty settlem
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