Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-16

throwsher up into the air. above the heads
of the crowd, and singles out upon whom
she alights.
Confession is extorted by tying the thumb
backward till it touches the wrist, or by
some equally barbarous mode of question
The consequence of condemnation is certain
and immediate death the mode is chosen
by the maganga. Some arc spearcd, others
are beheaded or ''ammazati'' i''-clubbed a
common way is to bind the Uranium between
two siff pieces of wood, which are gradual
ly tightened by cords till the brain bursts
out from the sutures For a woman they
practice peculiarly horrible kind of impale-
ment. These atrocities continue until the
chief RECEIVERS or dies at the commencement
of his attack, in one household eighteen
souls, male and female, had been destroyed.
Should his illness be protracted scores will
precede him to the grave, for the uchawl or
magician must surely die.
DEATH OF TRAVELLERS
On the way we were saddencd by the
sight Of the clcan-picked skeletons, and here
and there the swollen corpses of porters who
had perished in this place of starvation. A
sing large body, which had lost fifty of its
number by smallpox, had passed us but
yesterday on the road, and the sight of their
deceased comrades called to our minds ter
rlble spcctacles: men staggering on, blind
ed by disease, and mothers carrying on their
backs infants as loathsome objects as them
selves The wretches would not leave the
path every step in their state of failing
strength was precious; he who once fell
would never rise again no village would
admit death into it's precincts, no relation or
friend would return for them, and they would
lie till their agony was ended by the raven
and vulture, the fist and the fox. Near
every Khambi or Kraal I remarked detach-
ed tents which, according to the guides,
were set apart for those seized with the fell
disease. Under these circumstances, as
might be expected, several of our party
caught the Infection; they Jagged behind,
and probably threw themselves into some
jungle, for the path, when revisited, showed
no signs Of them.
INTERESTING CONVERSATION.
The Wanyamwezi porters seemed even
more timid on the down journey than on the
up march. They slank about like ours, and
the fierce look of Wagogo boy was enough
to strike general terror. Twaniganna,
when safe in the mountains of IIsaeass
would reaasaty jpaRalsfft 4fu May y sefVe IS
specimen Of the present state of conversation
in East Africa.
1.-The state, Mdula ?" e. e. Abdullah,
word unpronounceable to negroid organs.)
"The state, is very! (welD and thy
state ?"
''The state is very (welD and the state
of Spikka?" (my companion)
''The state Of Spikka is veryn' (wcll.)
"We have escaped the Wagogo, (rcsumcs
Twanigana,) white man, or
"We have escaped, O my brother"
''Thc Wagogo, are bad"
''rhey are bad"
"Wagogo are very bad"
''Thcy are very bad"
"The Wagogo are not good"
"Thcy are not good"
1.-The Wagogo are not at all good"
"They arc not at all good.'
Il greatly feared the Wagogo, who kill
the WanyamweZi.
"Exactly SOP
"But now l don't fear them I call
them - and -s, and [ would fight
the whole tribe, white man, O!''
Truly so, o my brotherr'
And thus for two mortal hours, till my
ennui turned into marvel Twanigaua,
however, was, perhaps, in point of intellect
somewhat below the usual standard of Afri-
can young men.
MBAYA AND TIE MosLEM MISSIONARY.
Muzungu Mbaya, as the old hunks calls
himself, might be seen sitting, deeply medi-
tative, at the end of the march, before the
fire, warming his inner legs, smoking his
face, and ever and anon casting pleasant
glances at small black earthen pipkin,
whence arose the savory steam of meat and
vegetables. A confederation of ideas in
duces Gul Mohammed to break through his
favorite theme.
"And thou, Muzungu Mbaya, thou also
must die p
ugh :! ugh" replies the Muzungu, per-
sonally offended, "don't speak in that way
Thou must die, too"
"It is sore thing to die," resumes Gul
Mohammcd
Hoo! hoo !" exclaimed the other cit
is bad, very bad, never to wear nice cloth,
no longer to dwell with ones wife and chill
dren, not to eat and drink, snuf, and smoke
tobacco. Hoo hoo! it is bad, very bad !''
''But we shall eat," rejoined the Moslem,
''the flesh of birds, mountains of meat, and
delicate roasts, and drink sugared water,
and whatever we hunger for"
The Africans mind is disturbed by the
tissue of contradictions He considers birds
somewhat low feeding; roasts he adores, he
contrasts montains of meat with his poor half
pound in pot; he would sell himself for SUI
gar; but, again, he hears nothing of tobac-
CO ; still he takes the trouble to ask,
"Where, . my brother?''
'Ihere," cxclaims Gul Mohammed,
pointing to the skies.
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