. My Apingi kingdom : with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c. . he heads of families took the lions share. Re-mandji and myself each took a whole boar. These blackboars are not so large as the yellow ones I have describedto you in former volumes, and are far from being sonice-looking. We slept that night where we had divided the forest was full of the smell of roasted meat, forthere was not a man there who thought that his wifewould be glad to ha^e a piece of his meat. Women,they think, must eat when their husbands are not hun-gry, and the c
. My Apingi kingdom : with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c. . he heads of families took the lions share. Re-mandji and myself each took a whole boar. These blackboars are not so large as the yellow ones I have describedto you in former volumes, and are far from being sonice-looking. We slept that night where we had divided the forest was full of the smell of roasted meat, forthere was not a man there who thought that his wifewould be glad to ha^e a piece of his meat. Women,they think, must eat when their husbands are not hun-gry, and the children when the mothers are satisfied. THE MEN MUST EAT FIRST. 43 Tlie wives never eat with their husbands, and it is butseldom, if e\er, that grown-up sous and nephews eat withtheir fathers and uncles. They are supposed to be tooyoung, and it would not be considered respectful forthem to eat with their elders. So that what is left of ameal the wives eat, and what the wives leave the childreneat; if there is nothing for them, they must do the bestthey can to find food, or go hungry, as ihej like ^^ M^^§ S ^ M ^B ^ ^—>&^^=_ja|jy 4 i^l ;^^^ ^1 CHAPTER VII. DEPAETUKE TO SaSIT MY DOMINIONS. PEECEDED BY ONE HUNDEED HOEN-MEN. FOLLOWED BY MY HOUSEKEEPEE. WAE,]VniST NOT TAKE PLACE. 1 GET IN A FUEIOUS EAGE. HAPPY DENOUEMENT. The day after my return from our hunting expedition,I thought it was time for me to visit the villages belong-ing to the country over which I had been made king; soI spoke to Remandji, who was, if I may use the expres-sion, my minister, or major general, and the people wereordered to get ready to start the next day. I wanted to learn the resources of the country; seewhat the people could do, what they manufactured, and-what the agricultural productions were, and thus be-come acquainted with the sort of commerce to which thecountry was best adapted. I must explore the forests tofind out what precious woods they contained, and if wecould obtain valuable
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