A man goes about calling out the price he wants for the slave, who walks behind him; if a woman, she is taken into a hut to be examined in a state of nudity.
Some of the Arabs believe that meteoric stones are thrown at Satan for his wickedness.

They believe that cannon were taken up Kilimanjaro by the first Arabs who came into the country, and there they lie.

They deny that Van der Decken did more than go round a portion of the base of the mountain; he could not get on the mass of the mountain: all his donkeys and some of his men died by the cold.

Hamees seems to be Cooley's great geographical oracle! The information one can cull from the Arabs respecting the country on the north-west is very indefinite.

They magnify the difficulties in the way by tales of the cannibal tribes, where anyone dying is bought and no one ever buried, but this does not agree with the fact, which also is asserted, that the cannibals have plenty of sheep and goats.
The Rua is about ten days west of Tanganyika, and five days beyond it a lake or river ten miles broad is reached; it is said to be called Logarawa.