Identifier: lakeregionsofcen00gedd (find matches)
Title: The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Geddie, John, 1848-1937
Subjects: Rivers -- Africa Africa, Central -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d wastold that they were remains of sokos, the trophies offormer feasts. He carried off two of the skulls, andpresented them to Professor Huxley, who declaredthat they were negro craniums of the usual type. Whether habitual cannibals or not, the Manyuemahave the most callous indifference for human sufTer-iii- and bloodshed; and the slave-traders found itthe easiest task imaginable to set the tribes at eachothers throats. These ruffians having gained com-plete ascendency with their fire-arms, sided firstwith one party and then with another, and when thecombatants were suilicicntly weak they all fell aneasy prey. From his camp at Nyangwe Livingstonecounted at one time ten and at another seventeenvillages in flames at once. The slavers depredationsculminated in a massacre of more than ordinaryatrocity. One of the great institutions of the Manyuemacountry is their markets, held in certain villagesand at stated times. Even in war-time marketpeople are allowed to pass freely to and from the
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AX ARAB MASSACRE. 159 fairs with their wares. People from distant dis-tricts collect here, and exchange their surplus pro-ducts for Manyuema luxuries. Fish-wives, goat-herds, slave-owners; dealers in ivory, palm oil,pottery, skins, cloth, and iron-ware; sellers of fruit,vegetables, salt, grain, and fowls, all mingle in themotley throng, and shout the merits of their par-ticular goods at the top of their lungs, and witha perseverance and ardour that would make thefortune of an auctioneer at home. Strange varietiesof savage costume and no costume are to be seen inthese groups: the wild Balegga man-eater stalkingside by side with the white-skirted Moslem man-hunter from Zanzibar; and the plumed, painted,tattooed, and bespangled chieftain laying his dignitytemporarily aside to chaffer with a poor commonerin his simple waistcloth, over the price of a pig orof a mess of roasted white ants. At Nyangwe therewas a market once in every four days, and theassemblage generally numbered about three

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