The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27

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INV three RELAYS OF hundreds OF slaves, but
oven this did not satisfy human greed.
FEAR AND SUPERSTITION. c
The Manyema were found to be terrified
by the report of guns. Some, know, be-
heve them TO be supernatural, for when the
effects of musket ball were shown on goat
they looked up to the clouds and offered to bring
ivory 10 buy the charm by which lightning
was brought from the skies. When o village
was assaulted the men fed in terror, and the
women and children were captured
NATIVE BEAUTY ASSERTING ITSELF AGAIN.
Many of the Manyema women, especially
FAR down the Lualaba, are very pretty, light
colored and lovely. 1t was common to hear
the Zanzibar slaves-whose faces resemble the
features of London door Knockers which some
atrocious iron founder thought were like
those of hons-say to each other:-"Oh, if
We had Manyema wives, what pretty chill
dren we should getl" Manyema men and
women were all vastly superior to the slaves,
who evidently felt the inferiority they had &C
quired by wallowing in the miro Of bondage.
Many of the men were tall, stripping fell
lows, with but little of what we think distinc-
tive of the negro about them. If one relied
on the teachings of phrenology the Manyema
men would take high place in the human
family. They felt their superiority, and often
said, truly, "Were it not for firearms not one
of the strangers would ever leave our coun-
try"
If o comparison were instituted and Man
yema, taken at random, placed opposite, say
the members Of the Anthropological Society
Of London, clad in kits or grass cloth, /
should like to take my place alongside the
Manyema on the principle of preferring the
company Of my betters
cANNIBAILsTIo SIGNS.
The philosophers would look wofully scrag-
~; but though the inferior race, as we COM
passionately coll them, have finely formed heads
and often handsome features; they are un-
doubleday cannibals 1t was more difficult to
ascertain this than may be imagined.
Some think that they can detect the gnaw-
ings of the canine teeth of our cannibal
ancestry on fossil bones. Though the canine
teeth of dogs are pretty much like human. for
many months all the evidence could collect
amounted to what would lead a Scotch jury to
give verdict of mot proven" This arose
partly from the fellows being fond of joke,
and they liked to horrify any one who seemed
credulous. They led one of my people, who
believed oil they said. to see the skull of
recent human victim, and he invited me in
triumph. I found 1t to be the skull of
gorilla, here called goko, and for the first time
became aware of the existence of the animal
there.
HOW THE NATIVES LIVE.
The country abounds in food of all kinds,
and rich soil raises everything planted in
great luxuriance A friend Of mine tried rice,
and in between three and four months
the crop increased one hundred and
twenty fold. Three measures of seed yielded
36O measures. Maize is 30 abundant that
have seen forty-fve loads, each about sixty
pounds weight given for a single goat.
The maize dura or holcus sorghum, hennis-
tum, cassava, sweet potatoe and yams fur
nish in no stinted measure farinaceous ingre-
dents for diet; the palm oil, groundnuts
and forest tree afford fatty material food;
bananas and plantains, in great profusion, and
the sugar cane the saccharine; the palm toddy,
beer Of bananas, tobacco, and vange
canabis salina the luxuries Of life,
and the villages swarm with goats, sheep,
hogs, pigs and fowls, while elephants, buffa-
loes, zebras and gokos or gorillas yield to
expert hunters plenty Of the heterogeneous
ingredients of human food. 1t twas puzzling to
see why they should be cannibals. New Zea-
landers, we were told. were cannibals because
they had killed oil their gigantic birds, the moa,
&c, and they were converted from the man.
eating persuasion by the introduction of pigs
but the Manyema have plenty Of pigs and
other domestic animals, and yet they are can
hibals. Into the reason for their cannibalism
they DO not enter. They say that human
nesh Is not equal to that of goats or pigs. It
Is saltish and makes them dream of the dead.
THE MISSION FIELD OF CHRISTIANITY.