Ten years in Equatoria; . on of hostilities with Azanga, concluding hisspeech by saying that his fathers spirit had ordered him to hold agreat hunt in his honour. The next morning the king left for the Poko at the head of 500huntsmen, with dogs and nets, whence he returned five days after-wards with 250 gazelles. The evening preceding my departure Kanna paid me a visit, andpresented me with the wing of a fowl. It is a good omen for a favourable journey, said he. Do notbe afraid ; I have consulted the oracle, it has spoken, and I let yougo, as I have no fears on your account. In trying the augu
Ten years in Equatoria; . on of hostilities with Azanga, concluding hisspeech by saying that his fathers spirit had ordered him to hold agreat hunt in his honour. The next morning the king left for the Poko at the head of 500huntsmen, with dogs and nets, whence he returned five days after-wards with 250 gazelles. The evening preceding my departure Kanna paid me a visit, andpresented me with the wing of a fowl. It is a good omen for a favourable journey, said he. Do notbe afraid ; I have consulted the oracle, it has spoken, and I let yougo, as I have no fears on your account. In trying the auguries he had stupidly squandered eighty fowls. The Sandeh, according to the importance of the oracle required,throw a certain number of fowls into a river. The answer isfavourable or the reverse in accordance with the greater or lessnumber of birds that succeed in gaining the land. Naturally, thefowls that escape are deemed sacred, and are left free.* Assembly, in the Mambettu tongue cadelu. e »\^ Uvt ^^c; jr -^ t,^.. IN MI A NTS FOO IS TEPS. 151 Whilst traversing the country inhabited by the Sandeh, I wasable to gather exact details as to the itinerary followed by Miani,He left Munzas residence, and went to the river Quali; then goingwestward, he visited the chief Mange, who resided near the riverNeklima. Always following the course of the river Bomokandi,he reached the territory of Nganzi, who presented him with achimpanzee. He crossed the river near Mount Mongiana, and,having visited Ndeni, he went to see Bakangoi. The king, as wellas his people, had pleasant remembrances of good Miaui, and spokewith admiration of his long beard and hair, and tlie beautiful glassbeads that he used to give away. On his return journey he kept to the left bank of the Bomokandi,and visited Zumbi, crossed the Poko, and went from thence to theterritory of Ngandua, where the natives robbed him of his ass inretaliation for having had two of their women carried off by themerchants of a caravan.
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