The man was stabbed, the village burned, and the people all fled: they are truly a bloody people! A man died near this, Monasimba went to his wife, and after washing he may appear among men.

If no widow can be obtained, he must sit naked behind his house till some one happens to die, all the clothes he wore are thrown away.

They are the lowest of the low, and especially in bloodiness: the man who killed a woman without cause goes free, he offered his grandmother to be killed in his stead, and after a great deal of talk nothing was done to him! _8th December, 1870._--Suleiman-bin-Juma lived on the mainland, Mosessame, opposite Zanzibar: it is impossible to deny his power of foresight, except by rejecting all evidence, for he frequently foretold the deaths of great men among Arabs, and he was pre-eminently a good man, upright and sincere: "Thirti," none like him now for goodness and skill.

He said that two middle-sized white men, with straight noses and flowing hair down to the girdle behind, came at times, and told him things to come.

He died twelve years ago, and left no successor; he foretold his own decease three days beforehand by cholera.