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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

CHAPTER XV
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On hearing the king's order that I was to be supplied with fish, the fishermen ran away, and pombe was no longer brewed for fear of Kasoro.
12th .-- To-day we slaughtered and cooked two cows for the journey--the remaining three and one goat having been lost in the Luajerri--and gave the women of the place beads in return for their hospitality.

They are nearly all Wanyoro, having been captured in that country by king Mtesa and given to Mlondo.

They said their teeth were extracted, four to six lower incisors, when they were young, because no Myoro would allow a person to drink from his cup unless he conformed to that custom.

The same law exists in Usoga..


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