When young, he could make his spear pass right through an elephant, and stick in the ground on the other side.

He was a large man, and all his members were largely developed, his hands and fingers were all in proportion to his great height; and he lived to old age with strength unimpaired: Goambari inherits his white colour and sharp nose, but not his wisdom or courage.
Merere killed five of his own people for exciting him against the Arabs.
The half-caste is the murderer of many of Charura's descendants.

His father got a daughter of Moenyegumbe for courage in fighting the Babema of Ubena.
Cold-blooded murders are frightfully common here.

Some kill people in order to be allowed to wear the red tail feathers of a parrot in their hair, and yet they are not ugly like the West Coast Negroes, for many men have as finely formed heads as could be found in London.

We English, if naked, would make but poor figures beside the strapping forms and finely shaped limbs of Manyuema men and women.