He says that he has been twenty-two years in Africa, and never saw an outburst like that of yesterday among the Wanyamwesi: it is, however, common for the people at Ujiji to drink palm toddy, and then have a general row in the bazaar, but no bad feeling exists next day.
If a child cuts the upper front teeth before the lower, it is killed, as unlucky: this is a widely-spread superstition.

When I was amongst the Makololo in 1859 one of Sekeletu's wives would not allow her servant's child to be killed for this, but few would have the courage to act in opposition to public feeling as she did.

In Casembe's country if a child is seen to turn from one side to the other in sleep it is killed.

They say of any child who has what they consider these defects "he is an Arab child," because the Arabs have none of this class of superstitions, and should any Arab be near they give the child to him: it would bring ill-luck, misfortunes, "milando," or guilt, to the family.

These superstitions may account for the readiness with which one tribe parted with their children to Speke's followers.